Maintenance Quotes - Page 6

• I'm far too low maintenance to ever spend more than five minutes getting ready to go out.

  Sienna Miller

  Lows, Minutes, Ready

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• I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.

  Nancy Reagan

  House, Want, Trouble

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• I like to be stylish and edgy, but also low maintenance.

  Krysten Ritter

  Edginess, Lows, Stylish

  "Krysten Ritter In 'Fashion'". www.sneakpeek.ca. August 22, 2017.

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• In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Mother, Art, Reading

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• Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Motorcycle, Finals, Logic

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• But my mother's life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the monotony.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Mom, Mother, One Day

  Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.213, Macmillan

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• Louisiana, the state road maintenance forgot.

  James Patterson

  Louisiana, States

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• Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Motorcycle, Riding, Classic

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM)". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Philosophy, Dirty

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 20, 2014

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• …the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.

  Nora Ephron

  Thinking, Hair, Worry

  "I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman". Book by Nora Ephron, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2006.

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• In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Order, Needs

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• Of course.” She fluffed her hair. “I don’t want to brag, but I’m very high maintenance.” “Uh, I think low maintenance is what’s desirable.” “Low maintenance is what’s forgettable. You might want to write that down, underline it, circle it and put a star by it. It’s golden.” With barely a breath, she added, “Now let’s find out if we’re compatible, shall we?

  Gena Showalter

  Stars, Writing, Thinking

  Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.38, Harlequin

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• Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won't have to hide behind a stack of canned food. I don't mean to be too literal about this.

  Nora Ephron

  Mean, Doors, Knowing

  Nora Ephron (2008). “I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman”, p.55, Random House

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• Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and money to the maintenance of an invasive plant species called turf grass that we can't eat. I encourage you to choose better obsessions.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Graduation, Worry

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• Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power between enemies. Nor is it brought about by dictatorship. Instead, it is rightly and appropriately called "an enterprise of justice" (Is. 32:7). Peace results from that order structured into human society by its divine founder, and actualized by men as they thirst after ever greater justice.

  Pope Paul VI

  Peace, War, Men

  "Gaudium et Spes". § 78, December 7, 1965.

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• The question taxpayers keep asking is 'why should we pay for services for those who have broken the law to get here?' They should not, nor should they be forced to be the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and School District of the world. This is evidenced in every poll I have seen indicating that every ethnic group is opposed to illegal immigration and supports enforcement of the law.

  Michael D. Antonovich

  School, Organization, Law

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• Prayer is the acid test of the inner man's strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.

  Watchman Nee

  Perseverance, Strong, Prayer

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.356, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance of it shall never be a crime in my view, nor bring injury on the individual. I never will by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance. I never had an opinion in politics or religion which I was afraid to own; a reserve on these subjects might have procured me more esteem from some people, but less from myself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Views, People

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• Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all men and all countries — not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of mankind as civilized.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Inspiration, People

  "Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb".

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• I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but... I don't have time for it - just give me the razor.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  People, Giving, Done

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• WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Weather, Government, Rude

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.232, 谷月社

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• The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

  Marston Bates

  Photography, Nature, Science

  Marston Bates (2014). “The Nature of Natural History”, p.265, Princeton University Press

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• We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.

  Adolf Hitler

  Order, Tyrants, Economic

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• I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying
  ordinance of the most extreme kind

  Milton Friedman

  Self, People, Want

  Interview with Richard Heffner on "The Open Mind", December 7, 1975.

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• The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a whole and to the maintenance of its stability.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Fate, Class, England

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