Sustained Quotes

385 quotes by 337 authors

And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained? — John Milton
The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point, desire as brief… — Mavis Gallant
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child,… — Andrea Dworkin
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework… — Betty Friedan
Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that… — Marian Wright Edelman
To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me. — Eric Rohmer
For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the… — Rupert Sheldrake
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something… — Peter Thiel
Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who… — Paul J. Meyer
Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too, requires well-directed and sustained sacrificial endeavor. Given that, we can,… — John Foster Dulles
Generalists, people with moderately strong attachments to many ideas, should be hard to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have weaker, shorter negative reactions since they… — Karl E. Weick
More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation. — Stephen L. Carter
Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and… — George Gilder
As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if… — Xi Jinping
I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these… — Jeb Bush
The family has a social function and so it should be sustained. — Rocco Buttiglione
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine. — Gwendoline Christie
My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to… — Joshua Ferris

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