Sustentation Quotes

#1. The fight has been going on since...dominion in this world has found itself capable of sustentation by the exercise of fear as to the world to come.

Anthony Trollope

#2. At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

John Donne

#3. Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth ...

Megan Whalen Turner

#4. In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

John Dewey

#5. There will always be 60 seconds in a minute. There will always be 60 minutes in an hour. And there will always be 24 hours n a day. Time was not fluctuating. It moved on at the same, constant pace at every moment in your life

S.C. Stephens

#6. It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.

Gwen Ifill

#7. First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.

Henry Maudslay

#8. The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Alan W. Watts

#9. What we had was a dream, and it was beautiful, but it was just a dream. It's time for us to wake up.

Julie Kagawa

#10. Poets are like baseball pitchers. both have their moments. the intervals are the tough things.

Robert Frost

#11. I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

Sebastian Faulks

#12. The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts to make this problem an excuse for federal intervention and a cause of war between the States.

Eustace Mullins

#13. Oh these little rejections how they add up quickly, one small sideways look and I feel so ungood. Somewhere along the way I think I gave you the power to make me feel the way I thought only my father could.

Alanis Morissette

#14. The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

Andrew W.K.

#15. It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.

Hank Aaron