Maintaining Quotes - Page 2

• Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Father, Power, Government

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• Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Perception, Criticism

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.78, Univ of California Press

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• Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.

  Lisa Leslie

  Sports, Average, Weight

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• But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.

  Joseph Rotblat

  War, Heart, Race

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.

  George Carey

  Thinking, Unity, Church

  "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". "The Religion Report" with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.

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• Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

  Samuel Johnson

  Courage, Quality, Vices

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.276

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• Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

  William Empson

  Analysis, Contradiction, Oneself

  William Empson (2000). “The complete poems”, Lane, Allen

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• Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and my maintaining focus.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Positive, Energy Of Life, Essence

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• In pregnancy, there are two bodies, one inside the other. Two people live under one skin. When so much of life is dedicated to maintaining our integrity as distinct beings, this bodily tandem is an uncanny fact.

  Joan Raphael-Leff

  Integrity, Pregnancy, Two

  Joan Raphael-Leff (2001). “Pregnancy: The Inside Story”, p.8, Karnac Books

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• To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

  Bruce Lee

  Distance, Contemplating, Oneself

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.37, Tuttle Publishing

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• I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.

  Ryan Cabrera

  Song, Heart, Dignity

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• On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by maintaining such a balance between produce and consumption as will give the greatest exchangeable value to the results of the national industry.

  Thomas Malthus

  Encouragement, Giving, Balance

  Thomas Robert Malthus, Edward Anthony Wrigley, David Souden (1986). “The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus: Principles of political economy. Part 2”

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• I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.

  Whitney Houston

  Daughter, Mother, Priorities

  "Whitney Houston and Producer Debra Martin Chase SPARKLE Set Visit Interview". Interview with Heather Warburton, collider.com. February 13, 2012.

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• You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Rainy Day, Texas

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• When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine.

  Horace Bushnell

  Lonely, Plato, New Beginnings

  Horace Bushnell (2001). “The Character of Jesus”, p.60, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.

  Ivan Illich

  Latin, America, Community

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The church, change, and development”

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• Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Attitude, Yoga, Skills

  B.K.S Iyengar (2000). “Astadala Yogamala Volume-1”, p.76, Allied Publishers

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• My interest is, my one hobby is, maintaining a democracy. If you get these 500,000 soldiers advocating anything smelling of Fascism, I am going to get 500,000 more and lick the hell out of you, and we will have a real war right at home.

  Smedley Butler

  Real, War, Home

  Smedley Butler's reply to Gerald MacGuire, after being asked to organize WWI veterans (for military support) in a fascist-coup of FDR, as related by Butler in testimony before Congress, 1934.

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• The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum. This was lost last fall when shortages caused by the limitation of port facilities made it impossible to get sufficient supplies to the armies when they approached the German border.

  George C. Marshall

  Military, Fall, Army

  Speech to the Overseas Press Club, March 1, 1945.

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• 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

  Reputation, Committed

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 26, 2016

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• The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

  Vince Lombardi

  Meaningful, Creativity, Creating

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• It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate safeguards to protect the very freedoms we cherish.

  Leonard Boswell

  Law, Giving, Reform

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• Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

  Noam Chomsky

  Growth, Quality, Gone

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• As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Mother, Pride, Gay

  Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.42, Broadview Press

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• Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

  Lisa Leslie

  Girl, Sports, Thinking

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