Sustaining Quotes
143 quotes by 134 authors
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For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.
— John Cho
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The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also…
— Anthony Giddens
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The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.
— Anthony Giddens
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It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will…
— Gerard K. O'Neill
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Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.
— Sheila Ballantyne
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It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat…
— William Ruckelshaus
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Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street…
— Horace Greeley
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We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the genius…
— Gerald R. Ford
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Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex and often costlier than winning the war itself. No matter…
— Dick Gephardt
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The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't…
— Walter Wangerin
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I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is…
— Willem Dafoe
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To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.
— Mary Baker Eddy
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I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.
— Joan Jett
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If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back…
— Michelangelo
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My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her…
— Michelle Obama
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Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies…
— Amity Shlaes
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All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly more…
— Lysander Spooner
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Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period…
— Bruce Springsteen
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Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
— Wislawa Szymborska
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Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
— Desmond Tutu
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