Maintained Quotes

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until the mid-20s that you have enough of a life to draw from. There's nothing better for a comic than to go through some bad stuff - and some good stuff, like getting married.

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

We're only one of a few states that have maintained our Triple-A bond rating from the major rating agencies.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his work and did not look back.

I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'

It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.