Preservation Quotes

345 quotes by 279 authors

I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part… — Audie Murphy
There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful. — Mariska Hargitay
The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs. — Stanley Druckenmiller
The way to build superior long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs...When you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to… — Stanley Druckenmiller
The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice of a martial… — Dan Inosanto
If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea, — Wallace Stegner
And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the… — Nadine Gordimer
Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation. — Nadine Gordimer
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over… — Ursula K. Le Guin
By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be… — David F. Houston
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to… — Samuel Adams
If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed… — Thomas Jefferson
The law of self-preservation is higher than written law. — Thomas Jefferson
Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will,… — Thomas Jefferson
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life is… — Allan Bloom
That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to… — Jacques Derrida
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that… — Augustus
Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50 years, I faced… — Philip Roth
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place. Except where… — Ross Douthat
Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance. — Saint Augustine

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