Sustaining Quotes - page 4

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters. (Michelle Obama)
We lose a great deal, I think, when we lose this sense and feeling for the sun. When all has been said, the adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on natures's sustaining and poetic spirit. View quote
Henry Beston
Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely. View quote
Joe Lieberman
A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be. View quote
Willem Dafoe
Do we really have to look these chords up in Forte's catalog in order to find a name for them? Another theorist [Christopher Hasty] assures us that, 'Allen Forte's perceptive interpretation...accounts for an essential quality of this mysteriously pulsating music. The eighth-note chords of the flute and clarinets form alternately, with the sustaining oboes and horns, the six-tone sonorities labeled A and B. The sonorities A and B are both representatives of the same set class (6-Z19) and are thus made up of precisely the same intervals. As Forte points out, "There is a flucuation of pitch-class content while interval content remains constant."' 'A fluctuation of pitch-class content while interval content remains constant' is what the rest of us have always known as 'a transposition.' View quote
George Perle
Organised religion has corrupted one of the purest, most powerful and sustaining things in the human condition. View quote
Alan Moore
The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk. View quote
Anthony Giddens
I had never met a poet in my life before winning the Pulitzer in 1945. Well, that's not strictly true; when I went to Johns Hopkins in 1939, W. H. Auden gave a private reading to a group of special literature students, and I was one. I shook hands with him. As it happened, at that time he was my idol, above all others as a modern poet, and that experience was a very sustaining one. But I could hardly say I "knew” him. View quote
Karl Shapiro
Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust. View quote
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We believe that to Christ belongs creative power - that "without Him was not any thing made which was made." We believe that from Him came all life at first. In Him life was as in its deep source. He is the fountain of life. We believe that as no being comes into existence without His creative power, so none continues to exist without His sustaining energy. We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence, and that the centre of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary. (Alexander Maclaren)
While democracy has advanced, the part we ordinary citizens have played in the making and sustaining of the places and communities we live in has diminished. Never has so much been decided for so many by so few. View quote
David Fleming
All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly more than in health, susceptible to the influence of particular states of the mind. View quote
Lysander Spooner
There is nothing as energizing, as confidence-building, as sustaining as the power of love. View quote
Gordon B. Hinckley
Even when the shadows of trial are falling around us, let us "pass through the cloud" with the sustaining motive- "All my wish, O God, is to please and glorify Thee!" View quote
John Rose Macduff
Female rage is not really permitted in real life. Angry women are called bitches, too emotional, hysterical, whereas male rage is often portrayed as heroic, righteous, intelligent. In Monstress, Arcanics wear collars around their necks to keep them from exercising their full selves. And I think one of the collars around the necks of women is society's views about female rage. Which isn't to say anger is necessarily a force for good. Rage can be energizing and sustaining, but it's ultimately problematic if it doesn't lead you to a deeper exploration of the source... View quote
Marjorie Liu
Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining. View quote
William Shakespeare
Each in his day, and within howsoever limited a circle of adherents, awakened that sustaining faith which appears vitally necessary to men's contentment, in the legend of the all powerful Redeemer who will come again, to-morrow. View quote
James Branch Cabell
It's depressing to realize how few of the teams in our lives use their human capital and opportunities well, when it comes to sustaining performance, innovating, or adapting. That's true whether we're talking about families, sports, projects, management, or research. View quote
Richard Boyatzis
My art, work, family and friends, my son Gabe, and a curious relationship with God remain the sustaining forces in my life. View quote
Joan Baez
Friendship is the balm and cordial of life, and without it, 'tis a heavy load not worth sustaining. (Laurence Sterne)
I consider the saga of no lord of the Silver Stallion to be worth squabbling over. Your sagas in the end must all be perverted and engulfed by the great legend about Manuel. No matter how you strive against that legend, it will conquer: no matter what you may do or suffer, my doomed Guivric, your saga will be recast until it conforms in everything to the legend begotten by the terrified imaginings of a lost child. For men dare not face the universe with no better backing than their own resources; all men that live, and that go perforce about this world like blundering lost children whose rescuer is not yet in sight, have a vital need to believe in this sustaining legend about the Redeemer: and the wickedness and the foolishness of no man can avail against the fond optimism of mankind. View quote
James Branch Cabell