Preservation Quotes

345 Preservation quotes by 279 unique authors

The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is… — Elisabeth Eaves
According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist,… — Melina Marchetta
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. — Audre Lorde
...I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right out of a… — Dennis Lehane
So he decided to stay out of it and instead turned back to Lady Bridgerton, who was, as it happened, the closest person to him,… — Julia Quinn
The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives… — Viktor E. Frankl
Stop the pain.” – Tory “You know I can’t.” – Acheron “Fine. But next time you’re the one who’s doing labor duty. I get to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Faith isn't about logic, son," Haddek said. "Perhaps that's your problem. You cannot 'disprove' the things you study, any more than we can prove to… — Brandon Sanderson
I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it’s harder to relax around them, harder… — Holly Black
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it… — Milton Friedman
I always thought fainting showed an inherent weakness of character, but I understood it now. It was an act of self-preservation. Confronted by emotion too… — Karen Marie Moning
Not that I don't appreciate the rescue," Holt said. "But I'm forced to ask, in the interest of self-preservation ... exactly how well armed are… — Rachel Vincent
In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution, or throwing herself… — Margaret Atwood
Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact. — Abbi Glines
From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life… — Henry Miller
Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving — David Levithan
I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with… — Isak Dinesen
self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue. — Baruch Spinoza
Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others. — Jodi Picoult
Take away someone’s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someone’s aggression and you take… — Veronica Roth
I do not apologize for advertising. I think it is as vital to the preservation of freedom in my country as the free exercise of… — Unknown Author
Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in… — William O. Douglas
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally… — George Washington
Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with… — Thomas Jefferson
This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor… — Charles Darwin

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