Sustained Quotes

385 quotes by 337 authors

The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had… — Jim Gerlach
Love is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life. We live for the sake of love, and we live seeking love...… — Swami Muktananda
I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting… — Jim Cantalupo
Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society… — Brian Ferneyhough
I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have. — Kamisese Mara
However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height… — Jules Verne
There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself though it is always secretly there. It is what… — John O'Donohue
Self must be denied as to time and attention for prayer. All-prayer cannot be wielded without the expenditure of time. "A minute with God" seldom… — Walter J Chantry
The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations without… — Carl Andrew Spaatz
Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated… — Hans Arp
Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception. — Winston Churchill
The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one should… — Eric Hoffer
I had a lot of self-loathing, .. I've been self-sustained since I was 11. I've always been the one making the money, and to be… — Melissa Etheridge
One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible. — Nelson Mandela
It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals… — Sathya Sai Baba
Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. — Anthony Burgess
America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and… — Barack Obama
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its… — Adam Gopnik
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by… — R. H. Tawney
I lost quite a bit of skin on the left side of my body and sustained some deep cuts in my hand and around my… — Jens Voigt

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