Subsist Quotes

61 Subsist quotes by 55 unique authors

Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the… — Thomas Merton
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and… — Samuel Adams
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. — Samuel Johnson
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to… — Baron de Montesquieu
Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most… — Algernon Sidney
They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but… — Victor Hugo
Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience. — Ernest Dimnet
The earth is our mother. She should not be disturbed by hoe or plough. We want only to subsist on what she freely gives us. — Chief Joseph
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our… — George Eliot
If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice,… — Michel de Montaigne
Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease… — Sun Yat-sen
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot believe that a republic could subsist if the influence of the lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power… — Alexis de Tocqueville
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their… — John Donne
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist. — Marquis de Sade
I have never really cooked, don't know how to use my dishwasher, and subsist mainly on prepared deli takeout. I don't even eat in restaurants… — Jerry Saltz
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. — Daniel Webster
Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an army of a… — China Mieville
ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water… — Nicole Krauss
The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then… — Peter De Vries
Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it. — Walter Scott
Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and… — Miguel de Unamuno
Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy… — Carl Sagan
Christian's family lived under the shadow cast by his parents. They had purposely become Striogi, trading thier magic and mortality to become immortal and subsist… — Richelle Mead
She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability. — Edith Wharton

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