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144 Sustains quotes by 132 unique authors
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Spirituality without a prayer life is no spirituality at all, and it will not last beyond the first defeats. Prayer is an opening of the…
— Joan D. Chittister
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Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.
— Marquis de Sade
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The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth,…
— Edward Abbey
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If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change…
— Kay Ryan
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To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing,…
— Cornel West
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This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us...
— Dan Simmons
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
— Victor Hugo
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The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language,…
— Yann Martel
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We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a…
— Paullina Simons
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It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility,…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
— J I Packer
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Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised,…
— Lew Wallace
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
— William Butler Yeats
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We do not live so that we can eat, nor do we just eat so that we can live. Life is worth living in and…
— Ravi Zacharias
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It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you
— Amiri Baraka
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It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.
— Muhammad Iqbal
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In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak,…
— Thomas Kyd
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Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the…
— Paul Wellstone
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Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, jouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds…
— Donald E. Westlake
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In every Indigenous community I've been in, they absolutely do want community infrastructure and they do want development, but they want it on their own…
— Rebecca Adamson
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Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is a specific example…
— Teju Cole
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The true - the true economy has got to come back into balance with the very biosphere that sustains us. And I think a lot…
— David Suzuki
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Over and over, the economy has determined the extent of our response, but how much value does it place on breathable air, drinkable water, edible…
— David Suzuki
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No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.
— Linus Pauling
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