Sustained Quotes

385 quotes by 337 authors

Iâ€™d been declaredâ€”over my loud and sustained protestsâ€”Pythia, the chief seer of the supernatural world. — Karen Chance
When your eyes are softly focused on the horizon for sustained periods, your brain releases endorphins. It's the same as a runner's high. These days,… — Maria Semple
Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment. — Angela Carter
Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes… — Oriana Fallaci
A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism. — Will Self
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular… — Anne Carson
Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me. — J M Coetzee
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must… — Erik Erikson
Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds — Paul Valery
Now when you meditate, try to meditate in a sustained way, first of all sustain it. Then you find that you are getting into the… — Nirmala Srivastava
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained. — Saint Augustine
The Reagan years showed us that expanding economic freedom should be the North Star - the guiding light - of U.S. policy, because it is… — Jon Kyl
Depression, when it's clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it's known to respond to medication and to counseling. However truly you… — Jonathan Franzen
In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news. — John Hockenberry
The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses. — Mike Pence
My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab… — Gary David Goldberg
The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and… — Sarah Churchwell
At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from… — Aberjhani
Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence. — Noah Feldman

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