Worth Preserving Quotes

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

Joseph Haydn

#2. Things that change and are lost, that is what's worth preserving.

Christopher Paolini

#3. The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. I have to determine whether the joy of craplets is worth preserving.

Howard Stringer

#5. And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television.

James Lipton

#6. Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population - weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example.

Susan Blackmore

#7. If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve becomes vitally important.

John Allen Fraser

#8. The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and love of self ... from within.

T.F. Hodge

#9. Perhaps, with enough time in these walls, one could become resigned to things never getting better, or even changing all that much. Or maybe a person eventually lost hope that there was anything worth preserving at all.

Hugh Howey

#10. There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

John Dewey

#11. Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.

Leslie Charteris

#12. The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

#13. I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

Garth Stein

#14. Story is a fragile and ephemeral thing on its own, a thing that is easily effaced or disappeared or destroyed, and it is worth preserving.

Doug Dorst

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

Rick Riordan

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

F Scott Fitzgerald

#19. 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

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

Henry Rollins

#21. Preservation of the past has been one of humankind's chief preoccupations for centuries, although I am not convinced much of it is worth preserving.

Chris Flynn

#22. Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

Jane Austen

#23. First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.

Renate Linnenkoper

#24. And out of nowhere, I think: So this is how it feels to stand at the edge of a canyon.

Ally Condie

#25. But in this at least thou shalt not defy my will: to rule my own end.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#26. You like words and I know words

Caroline Kepnes

#27. Now she's caught between
What to say and what she really means
And I am finally colouring,
Inside the lines that I live between

Ben Howard

#28. If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

Twyla Tharp

#29. And though you study medicine for a score of lifetimes, there will come to you people whose illnesses are mysteries, for the anguish of which you speak is part and parcel of the profession of healing and must be lived with.

Noah Gordon

#30. Art is as useful as bread.

Azar Nafisi

#31. Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

David Levithan

#32. Love is an essential ingredient in all miracles as it is only love that heals. Techniques don't heal. Where there is an open heart there is the energy to bring through miraculous and magical energy. Love is the great transformer.

Sandra Ingerman

#33. I will not fall in love with you," she said. "I can't let myself. I won't."
"That's all right. I'll love you enough for the both of us.

J.R. Ward

#34. My ranch William S. Hart Park is for the benefit of the American Public of every race and creed.

William S. Hart

#35. 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

#36. Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

Chief Seattle