Sustained Quotes

385 quotes by 337 authors

The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are… — Deepak Chopra
The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it… — James Joyce
A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe. — Lisa Kleypas
We assured Phelan that we were more than happy to let him have you and your menagerie,â€ Leo retorted. â€œAfter that, he said he needed… — Lisa Kleypas
My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic… — Anne Rice
With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that… — Joseph Campbell
The one who confidently looks forward to an eternal reward for his efforts in mortality is constantly sustained through his deepest trials. When he is… — Harold B. Lee
I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just not something that… — Russell Brand
But love, Iâ€™ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the… — Nicholas Sparks
These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on… — Ian Mcewan
Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which… — Alexandre Dumas
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your… — Maya Angelou
What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated… — Ben Okri
Thoughts by a graveside are too dark and deep to be sustained for any length of time. Sooner or later the hurt mind turns to… — Miss Read
Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faithâ€”faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is… — Eric Hoffer
War is brutish, inglorious, and a terrible waste... The only redeeming factors were my comrades' incredible bravery and their devotion to each other. Marine Corps… — Eugene B. Sledge
Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must… — Nicholas G. Carr
Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light? — Francine Rivers
There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are momentsâ€”moments of sustained creationâ€”when his time is… — Elwyn Brooks White

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