Quotes of: Preserve Keyword

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

Anita Brookner

Liberty isn't bestowed; it's achieved. It is not a gift; it's a conquest. It does not abide; it must be preserved.

Albert E. Bowen

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Anais Nin

Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see it.

Sahara Sanders

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

Yo-Yo Ma

Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work.

Susan Minot

The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death ...

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

The miracle of life is given by One greater than ourselves, but once given, each life is ours to nurture and preserve, to foster, not only for today's world but for a better one to come. There is no purpose more noble than for us to sustain and celeb...

The Quest for Peace, the Cause of Freedom

Where the hell is your sense of self-preservation, woman? You reckless, beautiful, stray cat!

The Calling

If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?

Enough's Enough

...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.

Ethical Motivations

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Charles Morgan

Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity of works of art for public view.

Simon Van Booy

as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established

1776

[...] in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent the destruction of the physical environment [...].

On Anarchism

Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland

Kushiel's Chosen

The whole purpose of the winepress is to preserve the grapes. Accept Pressing moments. What you accomplish in a moment of pressure will be used forever.

Life Capsules

If corruption had already taken root, then good seeds must be preserved.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

Speedboat

He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue.

The Women of the Caesars