Preserved Quotes

319 Preserved quotes by 283 unique authors

During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor to guard against… — Max Brooks
Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy,… — William Jennings Bryan
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the… — Confucius
A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true. — Saul Williams
We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility. We wage a… — Michelle Richmond
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when… — Arundhati Roy
I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you,… — Marcel Proust
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat… — Henry David Thoreau
I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes.… — Jacqueline Carey
We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights… — Sam Harris
No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when… — Samuel Adams
I was ripe ten years ago. Now I’m merely preserved, and before long I’ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.” -Amanda… — Lisa Kleypas
The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life- how terrible!… — Diane Duane
The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth… — E L Konigsburg
I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall,… — Leonard Cohen
I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to… — Donald Miller
..........books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient… — William Wordsworth
He would never abandon her, never leave a gaping hole, and even if he died someday, he was preserved like a lab specimen from all… — Shannon Hale
And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as… — John Adams
Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process… — Jaron Lanier
It adds up, but I deem it all necessary, even the camera gear. I enjoy photographing the otherworldly colors and shapes presented in the convoluted… — Aron Ralston
A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies,… — Virginia Woolf
I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel… — J.R.R. Tolkien
In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century… — Douglas Adams

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