Preserved Quotes

319 Preserved quotes by 283 unique authors

Finally, it is my most fervent prayer to that Almighty Being before whom I now stand, and who has kept us in His hands from… — Andrew Jackson
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of… — Adolphe Quetelet
When the population is filled with peace and harmony it ripens like fruit that turns to rot in a jiff if not preserved by change. — John Lindberg
As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the… — Antoine Lavoisier
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments,… — Benjamin Cardozo
According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until… — Grazia Deledda
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes… — Richard Chenevix Trench
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically. — Henri Bergson
We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like… — Unknown Author
If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in… — Claude Levi-Strauss
And we remember the end of our combat mission and the emergence of a new dawn -- the precision of our efforts against al Qaeda… — Barack Obama
The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges… — Humphry Davy
Let nothing of the truths that have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but let them be preserved intact in word and in… — Pope Gregory XVI
It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed — Charles Darwin
I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right… — Mahatma Gandhi
The world is in need of an encompassing and of course, just and humane order in the light of which the rights of all are… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility. — Eric Hoffer
Seeing there are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors, yet as the… — Origen
For who does not know, or does not advert to the fact, that what was given to the Roman Church by Peter, Prince of the… — Pope Innocent I
The Roman Pontiffs have always...held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor from what is… — Pope Pius IX
The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of… — Pope Pius IX
And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of… — Aristotle
At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists. — Benjamin Disraeli
Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up… — Scott Hahn

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