Sustained Quotes

385 quotes by 337 authors

A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share this… — Jean Helion
I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's the intensity of… — Lincoln Hall
The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever entered their… — Gifford Pinchot
Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot… — Ulysses S. Grant
What's amazing about Sarah [Brightman] is that she's sustained such a career. She just keeps going - she's like a machine. She tours and records… — Kerry Ellis
What always attracted me to [Bob] Dylan, and what has sustained me as a Dylan listener, or has always continued to surprise me, is his… — Greil Marcus
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. — Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can… — Daniel Goleman
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the… — Elizabeth Edwards
To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic… — Lauryn Hill
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. — Barbara Kruger
Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left. — Christopher Lasch
I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time.… — Yo-Yo Ma
Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy… — James Madison
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created… — Jose Marti
One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career. — Mercedes McCambridge
If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions… — Joyce Meyer

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