Top 100 Preserved Quotes
#1. Think of the repentance that could take place with lives changed, marriages preserved, and homes strengthened, if pride did not keep us from confessing our sins and forsaking them.
Ezra Taft Benson
#2. I was ripe ten years ago. Now I'm merely preserved, and before long I'll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.
-Amanda to Jack
Lisa Kleypas
#3. Memories and hope are not so different; one is "having done" the other is "to do." Neither constitutes action. You are what you do; thus, if you do nothing, you are nobody. If you once did great things, you think you are great. You coast along on dead, preserved laurels, lifeless and wasting away.
Mark Twight
#4. History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.
David Wojnarowicz
#5. Books are yours,
Within whose silent chambers treasure lies
Preserved from age to age; more precious far
Than that accumulated store of gold
And orient gems, which, for a day of need,
The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs.
These hoards of truth you can unlock at will:
William Wordsworth
#6. I came to understand that the perception that freedom is decadence is a fictitious one. Freedom is a good that is preserved and defended because it places individual responsibility at the heart of society.
Omar Saif Ghobash
#7. I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.
Judy Chicago
#8. Books are best preserved in the minds of readers.
Kat Lowe
#9. There is something so absurd about time and how it has simultaneously preserved and demolished our faces.
Noelle Oxenhandler
#10. Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility.
Marcus Aurelius
#11. Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
Sallust
#12. Shrine after shrine has crumbled before our eyes; but one altar if forever preserved, that whereon we burn incense to the supreme idol,-ourselves.
Okakura Kakuzo
#13. Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
Abu Bakr
#14. It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.
Finley Peter Dunne
#15. My ignorance would require a volume to itself. Between its covers would be preserved a record of the spurious model of all creation I had in my head, a prelapsarian construct, uncorrupted by the facts.
Peter Blegvad
#16. If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.
Nachman Of Breslov
#17. Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.
Pope Francis
#18. The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood.
George B. McClellan
#19. I hadn't noticed before how his mouth lifted up at one corner, as if he found life too humorous to stop smiling completely. Such a smile should be preserved forever in a drawing.
Sharon Biggs Waller
#20. there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence.
George Orwell
#21. I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life is in many respects, it seems a pity the old cheap, wholesome dishes have gone to make way for tinned and preserved foods.
Flora Thompson
#22. A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.
Ambrose Bierce
#23. Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts.
Barack Obama
#24. Let nothing of the truths that have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but let them be preserved intact in word and in meaning.
Pope Gregory XVI
#25. The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans.
Finley Peter Dunne
#26. Antique things have an appreciation and worth. Something can be old, but it can be timeless; therefore, it becomes an antique. If this antique is preserved and deemed precious, it could be passed down as a family heirloom.
CeeLo Green
#27. The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.
Edgar Allan Poe
#29. It's vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanity's continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun.
Vanna Bonta
#30. According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.
Grazia Deledda
#31. Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of being well-preserved, but to skid sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, still screaming, 'Whoo what a ride!
Theresa Hollis
#32. The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
Madame De Stael
#34. I think my perspective is unique, and I want to make sure that perspective is memorialized and preserved.
Christopher Darden
#35. We persevere because we are preserved by our High Priest's intercession.
R.C. Sproul
#36. He would never abandon her, never leave a gaping hole, and even if he died someday, he was preserved like a lab specimen from all the alcohol he imbibed, so he wouldn't look or act much different.
Shannon Hale
#37. Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
Algernon Sidney
#38. What is worrisome about that is the U.S. standard of living. I think it is very difficult to envision our standard of living being preserved if we are in an economy where all people do is flip hamburgers, wait on people in stores, and sue each other. It's not much of a basis for an economy.
Wilbur Ross
#39. The noble man wants to create something new and a new virtue. The good want the old, and that old should be preserved.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. The fight against global warming is a humanitarian issue - how the planet can be preserved - and it is also an issue of considerable economic importance, of what we call green growth.
Francois Hollande
#41. The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they've been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system.
Steve Israel
#42. In that moment, I understood what love was. It was blind. It was deep. It was magical. Love protected, preserved, intensified, and was always steadfast.
Priya Kanaparti
#43. That's the formaldehyde. That's why Granny's so well-preserved
Robin Williams
#44. The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.
Bertrand Russell
#45. One of the treasures of nature is beauty; this, too, should be preserved.
Yehuda Levi
#46. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
Dan Lipinski
#47. ... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed the truth: man will one day create human life.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#48. Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative.
Ridley Scott
#49. And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge ...
John Adams
#50. Memories are fragile; they can be broken and forgotten or preserved like a tomb.
Tony Conte
#51. In front of us there is an immense garden of words and non-words, a serre, that is, a greenhouse in which are preserved by my care so many things of speech you have given me while leaving me free to cultivate them.
Helene Cixous
#52. The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith.
Martin Luther
#53. We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
Isabel Allende
#54. I love this planet ... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.
Ted Turner
#55. The giant neon spinning discs are a reminder of the huge role that Sam Sniderman and his store played in the cultural life of Toronto and I believe they should be preserved and remounted in the interests of our city's heritage.
Gordon Lightfoot
#56. I think our forests should be preserved as much as humanly possible for recreation and just for enjoyment of the natural beauty of Pennsylvania.
Ed Rendell
#57. The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.
John Millington Synge
#58. Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#59. For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.
Thomas More
#60. Democracy as a promise means that society can never be just enough and that the self-reflection and struggles that enable all members of the community to participate in the decisions and institutions that shape their lives must be continually debated, safeguarded, and preserved at all costs.
Henry Giroux
#61. Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.
Toni Cade Bambara
#62. Attempting to destroy something out of hate or ego often ensures that it will be preserved and disseminated forever.
Ryan Holiday
#63. Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
William Jennings Bryan
#64. This is a very marvelous thing. A winter thing, when everything is pickled and preserved under glass. You can taste summer in this mixture, summer boiled down and soaked in brine, mummified, packed with spices to be born again on this table, in this place, in this snow.
Catherynne M Valente
#65. The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
Ann Brashares
#66. I looked briefly up from my notes. I was surrounded by hearts, sectioned and preserved. Hearts with holes. Hearts with leaking valves or thickened walls. Hearts with narrow or transposed aortas. I closed my eyes.
Claire Holden Rothman
#67. Plato and his objectivistic successors ... preserved the awareness of differences that pragmatism has been invented to deny the difference between thinking in the laboratory and in philosophy, and consequently the difference between the destination of mankind and its present course.
Max Horkheimer
#68. I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that the films that I watched when I was young and the films that I watched throughout my life are preserved, so that my children can see them.
George Lucas
#69. Words spoken in the heat of the moment may be forgiven; words preserved for ever on parchment may overreach their mark once passion has abated.
Susan Kay
#70. There, in a livid light, the demons tormented the souls of the damned. The souls preserved the appearance of the bodies which had held them, and even wore some rags of clothing. These souls seemed peaceful in the midst of their torments.
Anatole France
#71. I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated.
David O. McKay
#72. Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel.
Scott Hahn
#73. In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.
Charles E. Wilson
#74. The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
Robert Kennedy
#75. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
#76. The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic.
David Josiah Brewer
#77. History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#78. It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!
Martin Luther
#79. History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
A.J.P. Taylor
#80. It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.
Plato
#81. A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
Leonard Nimoy
#82. Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of states been preserved by the cunning of architects.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#83. Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
Aristotle.
#84. It was also true that if the Lees were still in Laos, Lia would probably have died before she was out of infancy, from a prolonged bout of untreated status epilepticus. American medicine had both preserved her life and compromised it. I was unsure which had hurt her family more.
Anne Fadiman
#85. Credit worthiness is like virginity, it can be preserved but not restored very easily, so it is crazy to play around with it.
Warren Buffett
#86. I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.
Jenna Elfman
#87. Losing never come easy. First off, preserved the memories.
Hlovate
#88. At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
Benjamin Disraeli
#89. I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved ... But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.
George Bernard Shaw
#90. So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.
Warren Jeffs
#91. All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth.
Robert E.Lee
#92. A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.
Thomas Hobbes
#93. The substance of the constitution is preserved. That is a fact.
Angela Merkel
#94. Rae Chorze-Fwaz has preserved and passed on their secret meditation techniques in oral tradition from the time of Atlantis until he present day.
Frederick Lenz
#95. As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
Cornel West
#96. Sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man stores up many such memories to take into life, then he is saved for his whole life.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#97. There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.'
Thomas More
#98. We are charged with doing the best with what we have. Responsibility is associated with any trust A trustee cannot take the easy way out He must use his talent and time to see that the thing of value is not only preserved but enriched by his efforts.
Jim M. Perdue
#99. The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.
Ludwig Von Mises
#100. That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.
Paulo Coelho
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