Top 100 Quotes About Preserve
#1. Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly.
John Shaw Billings
#2. No one tells you that it hurts this much to be a grown-up. That people are so complicated they end up hurting each other to self preserve.
Tarryn Fisher
#3. The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
Paul Watson
#4. He calls books freedoms. And homes too. They preserve all the good words that we so seldom use. Leniency. Kindness. Contradiction. Forbearance.
Nina George
#5. We have been quick to assume rights to use water but slow to recognize obligations to preserve and protect it ... In short, we need a water ethic-a guide to right conduct in the face of complex decisions about natural systems we do not and cannot fully understand.
Sandra Postel
#6. Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#7. If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.
Agesilaus II
#8. I fell in love with painting. Painting allows me to see things as I want to and not necessarily as they are, it's an escape, a way to preserve thoughts and memories, a way to create hopes and dreams.
- Marina
Pittacus Lore
#9. We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.
Heather Wilson
#10. Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland
Jacqueline Carey
#11. I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.
John C. Calhoun
#12. The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.
Alan Lomax
#13. Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.
Julius Genachowski
#14. Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.
Chauncey Depew
#15. The only way to leave the circle, to stop dancing with the jailer, is to find a way to preserve one's individuality, that unique which evades description but differentiates one human being from the other.
Azar Nafisi
#16. We fought injustice wherever we found it, no matter how large, or how small, and we fought injustice to preserve our own humanity.
Nelson Mandela
#17. If we don't preserve our natural heritage, and put back what we take out, these attractions won't be worth visiting.
John Drake Robinson
#18. What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
Abraham Verghese
#19. It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.
David R. Brower
#20. Indeed, Dr Haxhausen fought to preserve his freedom with very good reason, for he required a great deal of it - freedom, not reason - to pursue his plans for the future.
Thomas Ligotti
#21. I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.
Alex Karpovsky
#22. Salt and citrus," Cairdine Farrier said, joining her at the stern with a lemon in each hand. "The chemicals of empire."
"Salt to preserve food for long journeys," Baru recited. "Citrus for scurvy.
Seth Dickinson
#23. Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#24. And a government which cannot preserve the peace is no government at all, and in that case we pay our money for nothing;
Thomas Paine
#25. Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.
Terry Goodkind
#26. You sought to preserve your creative instincts and what would nourish them. But neurosis itself does not nourish the artist, you know; he creates in spite of it, out of anything, any material given to him. The torments and hells of [crazy men], are not for you.
Anais Nin
#27. To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to the public weal is the purpose for which Government was instituted.
John Quincy Adams
#28. As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.
Swami Vivekananda
#29. You are the salt to preserve the truth of the kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
#30. This-our love for each other-was the most sacred of things my hearts had ever known. And I was willing to do whatever it took to preserve it.
Nely Cab
#31. The best way to preserve a child's vision is to let them see things their way rather than yours.
Jacob Liberman
#32. The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.
Abraham Lincoln
#33. To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.
Philip Neri
#34. Select a large bulb with several well-developed offsets. Clean off the soil from the offsets and pull them away from the parent bulb, taking care to preserve any roots. Prepare pots with a moist, sandy compost. Inset a single offset into each pot, and cover it with compast. Label, and water.
Royal Horticultural Society
#35. Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.
Mary Daly
#36. So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#37. Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.
Ronald Reagan
#38. The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.
Steve Turner
#39. Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.
Henry Louis Gates
#40. Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.
Martin Luther
#41. We had lost the fight for the preservation of the white race until God himself intervened in earthly affairs with AIDS to rescue and preserve the white race that he had created ... I praise God all the time for AIDS.
J. B. Stoner
#43. If I could bottle kindness, I wonder if formaldehyde would preserve it.
Amanda Mosher
#44. To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.
Robert Owen
#45. Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.
H.L. Mencken
#46. The work of human thought should withstand the test of brutal, naked reality. If it cannot, it is worthless. Probably only those things are worthwhile which can preserve their validity in the eyes of a man threatened with instant death.
Czeslaw Milosz
#47. It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
Naguib Mahfouz
#48. In my opinion, the Hezbollah has going - they are going to discover sooner or later than in their top priority should preserve Lebanon.
Najib Mikati
#49. If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized.
Louis St. Laurent
#50. This is a place built to store books, by people who wanted to preserve books, and used by people who want to read those books. I am not alone.
Genevieve Cogman
#51. To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
Seneca The Younger
#52. We are different from previous generations of conservatives ... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.
Paul Weyrich
#53. Men and women who live in America ... have a responsibility greater than that yet borne by any other people. Theirs the duty, the obligation to preserve not only the Constitution of the land but the Christian principles from which sprang that immortal document.
David O. McKay
#54. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity.
Doug Stanhope
#55. Bush looked straight into the camera and said 'We must preserve the sanctity of marriage!' You know, straight people are doing such a fucking great job.
Greg Proops
#56. Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves; we can't see where they are.
Nguyen Quyen
#57. Comedy today is not what it was years ago. It's always changing, in particular to female comics. No longer are certain subjects considered to be a male preserve. Women can talk about sexuality and their bodily functions and it can be very, very entertaining. It's changed the impact of comedy acting.
Patrick Stewart
#58. You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
Victor Hugo
#59. When you're (traveling) with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because there's no other way to preserve it.
Shauna Niequist
#60. Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.
Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
#61. He admired this too: their ability to preserve joy at any cost, the way prehistoric man might have preserved fire.
Daniel Alarcon
#62. The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#63. We preserve ourselves as if that were important, and always at the expense of others. We hoard ourselves. We succeed if they fail, we are wise if they are foolish, and we go onward, clutching, until there is no one - we are left with no companion save God. In
James Salter
#64. Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to them peace from the foreign foe!
Adolf Hitler
#65. The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
Edith Hamilton
#66. We should understand the Constitution as the founders meant that it should be understood. We can do this by reading their words about it, such as those contained in the Federalist Papers. Such understanding is essential if we are to preserve what God has given us.
Ezra Taft Benson
#67. The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
Georg Simmel
#68. Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?
Joyce Carol Oates
#69. Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It's helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000.
P. J. O'Rourke
#70. What is nostalgia, after all, but an attempt to preserve that which was good in the past?
Ruskin Bond
#71. When a massive failure to preserve the integrity of an ecosystem occured, no one escaped the consequences.
Terry Brooks
#72. Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.
Helen Thomas
#73. Sexual frustration' - it always sounds like the only frustrated ones are the ones who don't do it. What a laugh. The frustrated ones are the ones who do do it! The ones who don't can at least preserve some illusions.
Eva Heller
#74. Honour, How much we fight with weakness to preserve thee!
John Ford
#75. All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
Thomas Pynchon
#76. In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.
Tadao Ando
#77. Listen to me, young Hardy. A day will come for you when play becomes torment. When you are drowning, not in water but on dry land. In that hour remember me. I will preserve you.
Steven Pressfield
#78. How vain are all these Glories, all our Pains,
Unless good Sense preserve what Beauty gains:
That Men may say, when we the Front-box grace,
Behold the first in Virtue, as in Face!
Alexander Pope
#79. another motive as well - namely, to preserve her voice, which had a quality of expressiveness I have rarely encountered. Customarily she spoke with a soft tone, as one might expect of a woman who has made a career of entertaining men.
Arthur Golden
#80. what is lost when the ends are interpreted to justify the means is always greater than what we sought to preserve with our unjustifiable actions.
A.D. Bloom
#81. You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
Luc De Clapiers
#82. The purpose of family is to preserve life,' Aunt Patti said. 'We treat family members the way we're supposed to treat everyone on the planet.
Liz Rosenberg
#84. I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.
Fritz Todt
#85. Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body.
Benjamin Ward Richardson
#86. Political and social institutions are to be judged by the good or harm that they do to individuals. Do they encourage creativeness rather than possessiveness? Do they embody or promote a spirit of reverence between human beings? Do they preserve self-respect? In
Bertrand Russell
#87. Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
Robert Anton Wilson
#88. For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.
Ivan Krastev
#89. In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest
George Washington
#90. What I wanted to preserve was the turbulent gasp in his voice which lingered with me for days afterward and told me that, if I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest. (p. 109)
Andre Aciman
#91. The authentic answer is always the question's vitality. It can close in around the question, but it does so in order to preserve the question by keeping it open.
Maurice Blanchot
#92. In the course of history no people have ever been given freedom like a present, and if freedom did not cost anything than no people would ever keep it! Freedom has a high price, and men must ever struggle to preserve it.
Adolf Hitler
#93. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
James Madison
#94. The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.
Mitt Romney
#95. I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.
Danny Lyon
#96. Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
Abraham Verghese
#97. Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.
Robert Southey
#98. Take a look at the polls. The public overwhelmingly supports higher taxes on the wealthy, which have declined sharply in this period of stagnation and decline - higher taxes on the wealthy and preserve the limited social benefits.
Noam Chomsky
#99. I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.
Edwin Land
#100. Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Miguel De Cervantes
