Top 125 Maintained Quotes

I have always maintained that if you work hard, it won’t go waste, as recognition will come to you at some stage, whether in studies or sports. You need to have good intentions and intent to move ahead in life as well as in sports.

I am greatly proud of the fact that ‘Doom’ is one of those things where everything that has a 32-bit processor has had ‘Doom’ run on it, and I think that’s been one of the great aspects of having it be open source: having everything out there means that people have maintained that and kept it up to date.

Henley’s one of my favorite singers. I’ve maintained a friendship with Don over the years.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

As far as my projects are concerned, I have always maintained a healthy balance. My south Indian projects have never taken a backseat even though I’ve been busy in Hindi. Both regions have loved me, and being wanted by both the north and south film industries is a compliment by itself.

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.

My mother was the nicest person in the world. I still have people coming to me to say how she was so warm, generous, and kind-hearted. She never washed her dirty linen in public. She always maintained her equations with people.

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

I think both Georges St-Pierre and Anderson Silva are establishing legacies just by how long they’ve maintained their championship runs. I think both of them still have a lot left in their careers.

I have always maintained that it’s not the quantity of work, but the quality that should speak. I have maintained the same for my music albums, too. I have always released them after a gap of two to three years.

Personally, I had a close friend with cystic fibrosis. I won’t ever forget how he handled himself. In the face of extreme challenges and very harrowing circumstances, he maintained a positive outlook and was just very dignified, even in his suffering.

Armaments are necessary – or are maintained on the pretext of necessity – because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

The ICRC did not see Nazi Germany for what it was. Instead, the organization maintained the illusion that the Third Reich was a ‘regular partner,’ a state that occasionally violates laws, not unlike any army during World War II, occasionally using illegal means and methods of warfare.

If the United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attacks of 9/11 – presaged by Islamic terror attacks on multiple American targets beginning with the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 – would have been stopped.

My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.

The musket, always a muzzleloader, took minutes to reload; an archer could aim and fire up to a dozen arrows in a minute. Muskets required continual cleaning and repair; bows were quickly made and easily maintained.

I’ve always maintained that RD Burman and Sanjeev Kumar were my two anchors.

Russia and China have maintained that people prize stability over freedom and that as long as the central State creates conditions for economic growth, people will be complacent and will be willing to literally sell away their rights. In fact, this very economic growth will eventually catch up with these regimes.

I have long maintained that voting rights is more important than preserving any Senate procedural rule.

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.

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

I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.

I have always maintained that my concentration is only on my career and on nothing else.

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?’

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Formed in 1967 and still performing regularly half a century later, Fairport Convention are Britain’s equivalent of the Band. Unlike the latter they have maintained cordial relations.

That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever.

I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.

After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.

I’ve always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn’t got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Law and order is a state responsibility. I can assure you peace will be maintained in Uttar Pradesh.

There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.

If you’re studying from a book and trying to listen in on a conversation at the same time, those are two separate projects, each started and maintained by distinct circuits in the brain. Pay more attention to one for a moment and you’re automatically paying less attention to the other.

I have long maintained the military budget is not a jobs bill… and will continue to support the lowest budget possible.

At each point of our process to repeal Obamacare, we have not lost sight of our responsibility to the most vulnerable in our communities. Safety nets and protections are important and must be maintained for those who need them most.

Designer labels, throughout the history of fashion, have maintained an air of exclusivity around themselves. Call it hype, criticize it if you will. But fashion has used this ‘exclusive’ tag to make itself coveted.

My parents weren’t married. It wasn’t like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad’s mother is my nana, and I’m closer to her than almost anybody in this world.

For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we’ve also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late ’50s and early ’60s rock n’ roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that’s just always been who we were. As much as we’ve evolved, that’s stayed the same.

I always maintained I’m a good simple boy from Punjab. Some chose not to believe me. Now the same people are happy to work with me.

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

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.

Software as an asset isn’t stable over time; it needs to be maintained.

I’ve always maintained if you want to act you should get yourself a life first.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

I’ve always maintained that people that are funny and smart can do anything in film.

I’ve always maintained that there’s no such thing as period acting, I think that’s a class thing. I don’t believe that people moved and spoke much differently than we do now.

I’ve always maintained that you can be sexy with your clothes on. Sexier maybe.

The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence.

Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It is a grasp on reality that does not need constant high points in order to be maintained, nor is it made vulnerable by the low points of life’s struggle.

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.