Preserves Quotes - Page 3

• My activism is a result of my love. So whether it's trying to preserve the wilderness in Southern Utah or writing about an erotics of place, it is that same impulse - to try to make sense of the world, to try to preserve something that is beautiful, to ask the tough questions, the push the boundaries of what is acceptable.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Writing, Southern Utah

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Writing, Meat, Soup

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• There is no argument so cogent not only in demonstrating, the indestructibility of the soul, but also in showing that it always preserves in its nature traces of all its preceding states with a practical remembrance which can always be aroused. Since it has the consciousness of or knows in itself what each one calls his me. This renders it open to moral qualities, to chastisement and to recompense even after this life, for immortality without remembrance would be of no value.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Karma, Remembrance, Soul

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• We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Beauty, World, Waste

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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• No price is too great to preserve the health of the fleet.

  John B. Jervis

  War

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• God's command to "pray without ceasing" is founded on the necessity we have of His grace to preserve the life of God in the soul, which can no more subsist one moment without it, than the body can without air.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Air, Grace

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.526

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• Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the 'educated' person.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Clouds, Light

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• Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Civilization, Silence, Speech

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• Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.

  John Locke

  Wisdom, Gun, Men

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• Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Persevere, Circumstances

  "Æneid". Book by Virgil, I. 207, 29-19 BC.

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• It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three hundred millions of freemen, without one noble or one king among them. You say it is impossible. If I should agree with you in this, I would still say, let us try the experiment, and preserve our equality as long as we can. A better system of education for the common people might preserve them long from such artificial inequalities as are prejudicial to society, by confounding the natural distinctions of right and wrong, virtue and vice.

  John Adams

  Horse, Kings, Freedom

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.546

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• Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Marriage, Mother, Cities

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.211

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• The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the name of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying to preserve heat. In time to wink out forever.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Reality, Drawing, Color

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.75, Vintage

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• To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Life, Men, Miracle

  The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying Ch. 1, Sect. 1

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• Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.

  Ted Turner

  Music, Peace, Common Humanity

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• Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.

  Kevin Kelly

  Business, Heart, Years

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• Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.

  William Morris

  Artist, Needs, Habitat

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• But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.

  Lu Xun

  People, Reform, Culture

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• All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

  Francis Bacon

  Painting, Select, Accidents

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• Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachments is to, grow every day more encroaching; like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour.

  John Adams

  Cancer, People, Giving

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.43

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• No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war? ... [T]hese remarks originate purely in a desire to maintain the powers of government as they are established by the Constitution between the different departments, and hope that, whether we have conquests or no conquests, war or no war, peace or no peace, we shall yet preserve, in its integrity and strength, the Constitution of the United States.

  Daniel Webster

  War, Integrity, Military

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• When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.

  Matthew Fox

  Animal, Effort, Wilderness

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• It is a myth that man in his natural state is genuinely seeking God. Men do seek God. But they do not seek him for who he is. They seek him in a pinch as one who might preserve them from death or enhance their worldly enjoyments. Apart from conversion, no one comes to the light of God.

  John Piper

  Men, Light, Might

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• Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.

  Menander

  Chance, Kind, Chances Are

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• The Blu-ray is the real cinematech of world cinema. That's how it's being preserved. All of these guys that are trying to preserve 35mm negatives? They are wasting their time. There are better ways to see and project this stuff. It's called digital.

  William Friedkin

  Real, Guy, Trying

  "EXCLUSIVE: William Friedkin Revisits To Live and Die in L.A. on Blu-ray". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 19, 2010.

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