Top 665 Maintained Quotes & Sayings

If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can't be maintained forever.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

They've maintained their unbeaten record between the legs.

A well-maintained physique is a great business card. Ideas and intelligence are what matters, but if you have a well-maintained physique, it's better.

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

Discipline must be maintained.

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

Faith is difficult to conquer and requires daily battles if it is to be maintained.

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

Germany is a fascinating role model. The Germans have maintained their manufacturing edge despite being a high-tax, high-regulation economy. Why? Because the government really set about ensuring that it maintained funding for technical training, technical advancements and programs. It made a concerted effort to retain high-end, complex manufacturing -- the kind of BMW model, if you will. And they've done that so successfully that Germany, which has a quarter of America's population, exports more than America does.

The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.

I have always maintained that my personal and professional life is completely apart.

I maintained a diary when I was a child and had all the happenings jotted down.

Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

It was by one Union that we achieved our independence and liberties, and by it alone can they be maintained.

The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.

Korea and the U.S. have maintained a combined forces command system for a long time. Even if we were to get operational control back, as long as this combined system is maintained, our countries will continue to have combined security, and U.S. forces will continue to play their part in our security.

Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.

For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome by the less rational, and the opinions that will prevail will be those which are held most ardently by those with the most passionate will. For that reason the freedom to speak can never be maintained merely by objecting to interference with the liberty of the press, of printing, of broadcasting, of the screen. It can be maintained only by promoting debate.

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.

Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.... Thus the entire arsenal of governments - laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons - is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society.

I have always maintained that bowlers win you a cricket match whatever the format.

An unpopular rule is never long maintained.

I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.

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

The reality is the park has been badly maintained for years.

I have enjoyed an impeccable reputation and have always maintained professionalism.

Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle

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

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

I've always maintained that winning and losing will be part of the sport.

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.

I've always maintained that I'd rather lead an interesting life than be a star.

I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.

If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

I approach the film business the way I feel about self-esteem. It's something that has to be maintained. That's kind of how I feel about positive roles in Hollywood. They have to be maintained. You have to purposefully, intentionally try to make the right type of films. And the more people that do that, the more things will continue to improve.

We all maintained our connections and our friendships, which we've maintained over all these years. We still like each other, love each other, and we realize that this was a way to heal and a way to really bring Ricky back into the mix. I think a lot of the songs recalled that time in Athens with Ricky.

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

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

America has maintained a prohibition on negotiating with terrorists for good reason.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

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

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate.

Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.

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

Wakanda was allowed to develop freely, specifically on its own. Wakanda pushed back all the invaders. So they maintained all their traditions; they maintained all their styles.

At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.

The records I always maintained were there to serve just one purpose - that was to be broken

Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.

Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever.