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Maintaining Quotes (page 8)

Arthur Rimbaud quote: "Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? -..."
Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ? Arthur Rimbaud
David Eddings quote: "If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're..."
If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself. David Eddings
no one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence. Martin Luther
There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us. Thomas Merton
Judith Martin quote: "It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when..."
It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right. Judith Martin
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. Carl Sagan
Do not believe that you alone can be right. The man who thinks that, The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul— A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty. Sophocles
Margaret Bourke-White quote: "The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in..."
The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. Margaret Bourke-White
Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and more emotionally aroused because that is their training. This asymmetry in sexual education maintains men's power in the myth: They look at women's bodies, evaluate, move on; their own bodies are not looked at, evaluated, and taken or passed over. But there is no "rock called gender" responsible for... Naomi Wolf
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. Dorothy Thompson
Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile. William James
We live in a world of accidents, in which only aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever, striving to create and maintain an ethical balance; but the shimmer of rain under the street lamps or the great flashing glare of artillery against a night sky- such brutal beauty is beyond dispute. Anne Rice
It is a mere truism to say that every nation, whether in America or anywhere else, which desires to maintain its freedom, its independence, must ultimately realize that the right of such independence cannot be separated from the responsibility of making good use of it. Theodore Roosevelt
Angela Carter quote: "How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute..."
How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic? Angela Carter
We know that we are not dreaming, but, however unable we may be to prove it rationally, our inability proves nothing but the weakness of our reason, and not the uncertainty of all our knowledge as they maintain. Blaise Pascal

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