Maintenance Quotes - Page 11

• It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Running, War, Fighting

  Woodrow Wilson (1903). “A History of The American Poeple”

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• To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

  Bell Hooks

  Psychics, Denial, Violence

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• The entertainment business is hard on relationships, but it's just as hard on your own spiritual well-being. It's easy to lose focus, to forget your priorities and wander from the path. There is not any one thing you can do to survive this desert. It's a matter of maintenance, of the small things you do every day and every week to keep the engine running smoothly.

  Ralph K. Winter, Jr.

  Running, Spiritual, Stress

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• I like girls who are cute and naturally funny. As long as they are not too high-maintenance, then we're good.

  Miles Teller

  Cute, Girl, Long

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• When I am home alone I like to scatter my tackle across the floor and play with it. I may pretend I am working on it, performing preventative maintenance, but really it is playing.

  Howell Raines

  Home, Play, May

  Howell Raines (1994). “Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis”, Anchor

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• The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer justify the maintenance of a discriminatory sex class system on grounds of its origins in nature. Indeed, for pragmatic reasons alone it is beginning to look as if we must get rid of it.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Sex, Class, Humanity

  "Shulamith Firestone obituary" by Julie Bindel, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2012.

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• My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Simple, Car, Principles

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• When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community and often the community socially is broken.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Crush, Technology, Broken

  "Quotes of the day: Cameron Sinclair". www.cnn.com. July 11, 2008.

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• Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

  Wesley Morris

  Persistence, White, Males

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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• Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Successful, Government, Two

  United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln), Abraham Lincoln (1861). “Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress”, p.16

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• We take better care of the maintenance of our cars than we take care of the maintenance of our bodies.

  David H. Murdock

  Car, Body, Care

  "Food Knowledge Is Health Power" by David H. Murdock, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2011.

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• Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.

  Lisa Birnbach

  Clothes, Wool, Looks

  Lisa Birnbach (1980). “The official preppy handbook”, Workman Publishing

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• Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out.

  Ali Vincent

  Hurt, Health, Loss

  Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.3, Rodale

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• Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Taught

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• I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my glasses, my papers, my mind.

  Rebecca Wells

  Writing, Glasses, Challenges

  Rebecca Wells (2009). “Little Altars Everywhere: Novel, A”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• The European policy is invariably the maintenance of the status quo, and you will do nothing for the subject races unless we, by taking initiative, make you realize that helping us against the Turks is the lesser of the evils.

  Eleftherios Venizelos

  Race, Evil, Helping

  "Eminent Europeans; studies in continental reality" by E. S. Bagger, G.P. Putnam's Sons, (p. 67), 1922.

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• People are led to reason thus: a woman who is a wife is one who has made a permanent sex bargain for her maintenance; the woman who is not married must therefore make a temporary bargain of the same kind.

  Christabel Pankhurst

  Sex, People, Wife

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• As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties.

  Gail Sheehy

  Meaningful, Running, Ideas

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'?

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Life, Self, Years

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• A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Peace, War

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• I get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour.

  Bernie Mac

  Brother, Cutting, Hair

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• Green screen, you know, it's been interesting, it's my first time to ever work with green screen technology, and it's, sometimes it can be really boring because you're like wow, I've got to really imagine all of this stuff around me. But it's low maintenance, which is nice, um, and it's not as hard as I thought it would be, so.

  Jaimie Alexander

  Nice, Technology, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempted to swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its maintenance; when solicited by the enticement of sinners, firm as a rock in our denial.

  William Morley Punshon

  Real, Rocks, Self

  William Morley Punshon (1882). “Lectures”

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• Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power to inspect dwelling places, either as a matter of systematic area-by-area search or, as here, to treat a specific problem, is of indispensable importance in the maintenance of community health; a power that would be greatly hobbled by the blanket requirement of the safeguards necessary for a search of evidence of criminal acts.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Dwelling Place, Community, Criminals

  "Frank v. Maryland, 359 U.S. 360". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. May 4, 1959.

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• Whether we assert our rights by sea, or attempt their maintenance by land whithersoever we turn ourselves, this phantom incessantly pursues us. Already has it had too much influence on the councils of the nation.

  Henry Clay

  Rights, Sea, Land

  Henry Clay (1857). “The speeches of Henry Clay”, p.20

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