Quotes About Preserving

#1. My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity
a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.

James Boswell

#2. Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

Horace

#3. We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.

Gavin Newsom

#4. Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

George Washington

#5. In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash.

Candace Kita

#6. An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.

James R. Thompson

#7. So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

Dean Stockwell

#8. It is probable that the lemon is the most valuable of all fruit for preserving health.

Maud Grieve

#9. The world may need fixing, but it's worth preserving.

Rick Riordan

#10. In favor of southern womanhood as much as anybody, but not for preserving polite fiction at the expense of human life.

Harper Lee

#11. Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

Paul Saffo

#12. Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity.

Christopher Morley

#13. Myth: Feeding the banking sector gobs of welfare cash will bring about a recovery. Fact: Our leaders are only dedicated to preserving power

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#14. The World we all share is given to us in trust. Every choice we make regarding the earth, air, and water around us should be made with the objective of preserving it for all generations to come.

August Busch III

#15. We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure one's own deception is to accuse others of deceit.

R. Scott Bakker

#16. We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's welfare in the future of preserving the forests.

Theodore Roosevelt

#17. My definition of a green-collar job is this: a family-supporting, career-track job that directly contributes to preserving or enhancing environmental quality.

Van Jones

#18. If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.

Richard Rohr

#19. I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.

David Attenborough

#20. There is a way of leaving and yet of not leaving; of hinting that one loves and is willing to return, yet never coming back and so preserving a relationship in a lingering decay.

Cyril Connolly

#21. As Americans, preserving the best ...

Paul Robeson

#22. If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

Joseph Haydn

#23. Making poems was a way of loving things, I had always thought, of preserving them, of living moments twice; or more than that, it was a way of living more fully, of bestowing on experience a richer meaning. But

Garth Greenwell

#24. To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.

A. Y. Jackson

#25. I am staunchly committed to ensuring the long-term solvency of Social Security and preserving full benefits for Americans who have spent their entire working lives contributing to this program.

Sue Kelly

#26. It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide not to saddle their own children with the chore of preserving them.

Andrew Dalby

#27. We spoke of religion, and how much of it is just a custom preserving practical codes of health, morality and justice that are no longer necessary for group survival (like not eating animals with cloven hooves).

Marilyn Manson

#28. Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#29. The world of "preserving" that wealth. He had no interest in preservation of any sort.

Michael Lewis

#30. Tess was awake before dawn - at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken.

Thomas Hardy

#31. By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.

Rusty Schweickart

#32. There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names.

Giordano Bruno

#33. Do your research. Do your homework. Learn what this man would do to our country in the name of preserving a brand of freedom that is as destructive as it is impossible to secure. Know your enemy.

Mira Grant

#34. If there is one thing in this wonderful world of ours that is worth preserving, defending, and promoting, it is the White Race.

Ben Klassen

#35. I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don't really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.

Doug Aitken

#36. We uncovered a phenomenon we call "the immunity to change," a heretofore hidden dynamic that actively (and brilliantly) prevents us from changing because of its devotion to preserving our existing way of making meaning.

Robert Kegan

#37. Preserving freedom of speech maximizes the chance of truth emerging from its collision with error and half-truth.

Nigel Warburton

#38. They all agreed, that I could not be produced according to the regular laws of nature; because I was not framed with a capacity of preserving my life, either by swiftness, or climbing of trees, or digging holes in the earth.

Jonathan Swift

#39. Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.

Bill Ackman

#40. And preserving our open spaces or having them there for recreational purposes is one of the things that contributes to the high level of quality of life that we offer in Pennsylvania, and that also translates into economic benefits.

Ed Rendell

#41. Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen.

Douglas Rushkoff

#42. The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my immediate family, to render them worth communicating or preserving.

John Marshall

#43. There's a lot that's wrong with the way we work - bad habits that develop around control of information, people hoarding information as a means of preserving their own power. When you're using Slack, everyone can see what's going on because the default mode is public.

Stewart Butterfield

#44. A gastronomer who is not an environmentalis t is just stupid. Whereas an environmentalis t who is not a gastronomer is sad. It's possible to change the world even while preserving the concept of the right of pleasure.

Carlo Petrini

#45. This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#46. The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

Milton Friedman

#47. For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.

Barack Obama

#48. The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I really feel that it allows the public an ability to engage with their own history.

Sarah Harrison

#49. I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

Ron Paul

#50. To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

George Washington

#51. Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.

Edward Burnett Tylor

#52. Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.

Jim Fowler

#53. We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us ... The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God's initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving.

J.I. Packer

#54. Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations.

Cliff Stearns

#55. Conservation is key to preserving many of the world's natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#56. Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.

Heinrich Heine

#57. A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is no social interest in preserving the lives of the aggressors at the cost of those of their victims." That is not a universal judgment today.

Don Kates

#58. In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

Questlove

#59. The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

James Payn

#60. Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you can't. You can't save everything. You just have to pack it up in your brain and take it with you when you go.

Sloane Crosley

#61. I love indie record stores, man. I love anything that's about independence and preserving the brand of good music.

Raheem Devaughn

#62. In recent years, even as the court has become an increasingly political body, the Senate is not focused on preserving any perceived ideological balance when Democrat presidents have appointed people to the court.

Sam Brownback

#63. What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place.

Alain De Botton

#64. Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work.

Susan Minot

#65. Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms.

Shams Tabrizi

#66. Many aspects of the human condition are beautiful and many others are vile. Betrayal and personal agony represent a maddening part of being human. A person can maintain personal dignity by exercising restraint, remaining true to their conscience, and preserving under difficult conditions.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#67. The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

Cliff Stearns

#68. A successful local food economy implies not only a new kind of food producer, but a new kind of eater as well, one who regards finding, preparing, and preserving food as one of the pleasures of life rather than a chore.

Michael Pollan

#69. The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#70. God's canopy is over you and will cover you at all times, preserving you from evil.

Smith Wigglesworth

#71. True, Putin's Russia does not dream of joining the E.U., but Russia's stability depends on preserving the European nature of its regime.

Ivan Krastev

#72. And my mother always knew that, hence her Nikon raised high and pointed right into the mirror. She sensed that by documenting her own body, she was preserving her history. Beautifully. Nakedly. Imperfectly. Her private experiment made way for my public one.

Lena Dunham

#73. What's novel today is the outspoken way that powerful donors admit and even champion the fact that gift-giving is a useful vehicle for preserving privilege, something that distinguishes them from earlier donors.

Linsey McGoey

#74. Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.

Kofi Annan

#75. While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom.

Ronald Reagan

#76. That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.

Thomas Jefferson

#77. I concentrate in my work on preserving and displaying the original flavor from each ingredient in a dish.

Alain Ducasse

#78. The joy of writing.
The power of preserving.
Revenge of a mortal hand.

Wislawa Szymborska

#79. We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River.

Roy Barnes

#80. When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#81. Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

Walter Bagehot

#82. People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.They have some issue. They have some interest.It may be preserving carried interest. But it's not altruistic.

David Brooks

#83. Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

Plutarch

#84. The automobile, which began as a transportation convenience, has become a bloody tyrant (50,000 lives a year), and it is the responsibility of the park service, as well as that of everyone else concerned with preserving both wilderness and civilization, to begin a campaign of resistance.

Edward Abbey

#85. Originally, governments had very limited functions. Their purpose was simply to "preserve and protect." Then someone added "provide." When governments began to be the people's provider as well as the people's protector, governments started creating society, rather than preserving it.

Neale Donald Walsch

#86. [C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

Samuel Johnson

#87. The more widely you can spread this notion of achieving ROI by preserving and improving ecosystems, the better.

Ramez Naam

#88. These people who bang on about saving the planet, it's not the planet they want to save, the planet doesn't need saving. They're concerned solely with preserving the planet so the human race lives on and on, a massive distinction people fail to make

Robert Breeze

#89. LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed

Ambrose Bierce

#90. Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.

Dan Savage

#91. I can move around the way I want to. It's a beautiful thing. I don't know how long it'll last, but I'll certainly take advantage of it and try to be part of shifting and shaping the culture and preserving it.

Warryn Campbell

#92. Just that I'm not a realist,' he said, and then: 'No, only the romanticist preserves the things worth preserving.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#93. Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#94. The right solution is a progressive annual tax on capital. This will make it possible to avoid an endless inegalitarian spiral while preserving competition and incentives for new instances of primitive accumulation.

Thomas Piketty

#95. The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

Lucian Freud

#96. I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for our kids and grandkids.

Mike Pompeo

#97. Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#98. The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.

Henry Rollins

#99. The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Jean-Henri Fabre

#100. People of all political persuasions - conservatives, moderates, and liberals alike - need to dedicate themselves once again to preserving the moral foundation of our society.

Tipper Gore