Preserving Quotes

For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous!

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

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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

There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

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.

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

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.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

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.

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority.

I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

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.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.

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.

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.

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

The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them.

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

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

It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

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

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.