Sustained Quotes

385 quotes by 337 authors

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to… — Cornel West
Happiness when sustained too long in print can rightly be construed as sappiness... — Millard Kaufman
The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried… — David McCullough
Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one… — Henry Miller
in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made… — Hannah Arendt
The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins… — James Allen
This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say… — Marcel Proust
For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers… — Saul Williams
I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy… — Anne Rice
The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the… — Anthony Burgess
He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on… — Cormac McCarthy
I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the… — Muhammad Yunus
I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death. — Dean Koontz
Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will… — Bell Hooks
And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was… — Ian Mcewan
What else exhausts like sustained deception? — Leif Enger
All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier,… — Dan Millman
I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made… — Reif Larsen
What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority. — Molly Ivins

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