Maintaining famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. Its a balance.
-- Bikram Choudhury -
This is our festival and on this day we are all Indians. We celebrate the festival by maintaining the spirit of brotherhood.
-- Brinda Karat -
To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.
-- Bruce Lee -
Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.
-- Bruce Schneier -
Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject.
-- Byron White -
Set yourself up for success from the very beginning and then focus on maintaining that success.
-- Cat Cora -
Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.
-- Charles Koch -
Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.
-- Cyprian -
It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.
-- David Ben-Gurion -
Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.
-- David Rockefeller -
Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.
-- Deng Xiaoping -
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
-- Derek Bok -
A lot of people are concerned with staying physically young...I'm more interested in maintaining my curiosity.
-- Diablo Cody -
Shaucha, or living purely, involves maintaining a cleanliness in body, mind, and environment so that we can experience ourselves at a higher resolution.
-- Donna Farhi -
Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.
-- Ed Pastor -
I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.
-- Eli Broad -
The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.
-- Eric Maisel -
I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.
-- Gary Larson -
The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.
-- George C. Marshall -
The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.
-- Harry Shearer -
Nothing is necessary for you in maintaining a Christian life, but just to stay by the helm, and put yourself where the power is. Come unto God, unite yourself to God, and the doing power you have is infinite.
-- Horace Bushnell -
Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government
-- J. P. Morgan -
The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its history, it adapts itself with more or less promptness to the requirements of the times, has lately instituted a course of Experimental Physics.
-- James Clerk Maxwell -
Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here’s a new writer who has found his voice. Listen to him and enjoy!
-- James Patrick Kelly -
The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness.
-- Jeff Landry -
Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business. We live and breathe only one thing, which is wanting to connect consumers with great local businesses, and I don't feel we can do that if we don't have effective ways to prevent gaming of the system.
-- Jeremy Stoppelman -
Each of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of all of us. And all of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of each of us.
-- Jim Rohn -
I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.
-- John D. MacDonald -
Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.
-- John Goodlad -
It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.
-- Jon Landau -
Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.
-- Kay Warren -
Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world.
-- Kelly Slater -
I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.
-- Leila Josefowicz -
I needed to save every penny…I needed to be strong, and needed to find some way to secure a future. That’s why I am always conservative. I never forget to maintain stability while advancing, and I never forget to advance while maintaining stability.
-- Li Ka-shing -
I lovingly do everything I can to assist my body in maintaining perfect health
-- Louise Hay -
I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of my work, that I am maintaining my sense of purpose, that I am holding fast to my ideals, that I am guiding my people in the right direction.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.
-- Max Baucus -
One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct with no preconceived notions. This enabled me to learn and change quickly without having to worry about maintaining any kind of status quo, like some of my bigger competitors.
-- Michael Dell -
Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.
-- Naveen Jain -
The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.
-- Neil Postman -
Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.
-- Nitin Nohria -
...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.
-- Peter Drucker -
The family is the foundation for love and for maintaining spirituality
-- Quentin L. Cook -
If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
-- Rachel Maddow -
We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.
-- Richard Lamm -
Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists.
-- Robert H. Meltzer -
I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.
-- Ryan Cabrera -
I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.
-- Tony Robbins -
Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.
-- U.G. Krishnamurti -
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
-- Voltaire -
There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
-- Will Durant -
Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.
-- William Empson -
Atheists themselves used to be very comfortable in maintaining that the universe is eternal and uncaused. The problem is that they can no longer hold that position because modern evidence that the universe started with the Big Bang. So they can't legitimately object when I make the same claim about God - he is eternal and he is uncaused.
-- William Lane Craig -
It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.
-- Yehudi Menuhin -
When maintaining a relationship means diminishing your self, it's time to walk.
-- Dov Davidoff -
Sometimes I have a beard, sometimes I don't, and I'm not very good at maintaining it. I've got an agreement with my life coach and guru that I don't touch it from now on.
-- Justin Hawkins -
I'm fascinated how owning something, especially something as big as a home, can affect your political leanings. Home ownership spawns thoughts of equity and maintaining value.
-- Kirby Wright -
Sometimes it was really hard maintaining composure. People were just goofy.
-- Pell James -
Through my life, [there have been] a lot of devils and a lot of situations, so I'm just goin' hard, maintaining, regardless of what people got to say about Ace Hood.
-- Ace Hood -
Only Zionists get to proclaim their fear of a brown planet while simultaneously maintaining a patina of liberal respectability.
-- Max Blumenthal -
Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race.
-- Arthur Henderson -
In an apostolic network the person in charge of maintaining the DNA of the network is the lead apostle, who consults with those he or she chooses, and no one else.
-- C. Wagner
