Sustained Quotes

385 quotes by 337 authors

Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He… — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within. — Mahatma Gandhi
Salvation is an act of God. It is initiated by God, wrought by God, and sustained by God. — Billy Graham
Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output. Since most of our exogenous tax changes are in… — Christina Romer
For years I have made the point that progress in winding back economic slack is made not by high growth in any individual year, but… — Ian Macfarlane
There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could… — John Holdren
I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer. — Bill Gates
The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained — Albert Allen Bartlett
People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful… — Surya Das
Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that if we invent… — Helen Zille
We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of an extended and… — Pope Gregory XVI
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support. — Paul Samuelson
It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained. — Eckhart Tolle
... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence,… — Robert Parry
Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one's total… — Aberjhani
It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people,… — George Washington
The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization — Herbert Marcuse
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts… — Immanuel Kant
The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him… — Don DeLillo
Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow. — Albert Einstein

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