Top 719 Sustained Quotes & Sayings

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.

Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.

Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.

Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort.

One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible.

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

This promise from the Lord to His Saints does not imply that we will be exempt from sufferings or trials but that we will be sustained through them and that we will know that it is the Lord who has sustained us.

No dictatorship can be sustained within the context of an information revolution.

All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.

Female friendships have sustained me from my earliest days as a child.

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

There are no debt payments that can be sustained if the country does not grow.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Happiness when sustained too long in print can rightly be construed as sappiness.

I've sustained a meniscus injury, shortly after that I sustained an ACL injury so really just going through that and going through some personal issues, personal problems within myself.

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

Democracy should be nurtured and sustained in Nigeria and in our part of the world

Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be sustained because meaninglessness, anomie, and despair will corrode the desire to be sustained and the belief that humanity is worth sustaining. But these are the very things that distinguish the modern age from its predecessors, Genuine sustainability, in other words, will come not from superficial changes but from a deeper process akin to humankind growing up to a fuller stature.

Our most important priority is sustained economic growth, and I think we can absolutely get to sustained 3% to 4% GDP, and that is absolutely critical for the country.

Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

We are blessed and sustained by what is not said

Now when you meditate, try to meditate in a sustained way, first of all sustain it. Then you find that you are getting into the state of Samadhi, means at a state where you start feeling the joy and the bliss of God's blessings, and then you start saying "O God, what a blessing, what a blessing, and what a blessing". Once you have reached that state then you have to realize "Who am I". Who are you? What are you? You are the Spirit. After establishing your sustained attention on the Spirit you'll develop a state where you'll be in a complete state of witnessing with joy.

The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained.

Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.

What can be sustained and repeated without emptying out?

All effort is in the last analysis sustained by the faith that it is worth making.

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.

The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision

I have some star status. But I don't have that sustained success rate.

Sound public finances are not the enemy of sustained growth - they are its precondition.

Sustained motivation is essential to achieving your potential.

The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.

Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

By harmony all phenomena are formed and sustained. There is a scientific statement to the effect that this earth is a vast harmonic wave system that is built and sustained by unheard music.

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Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.

Possessing a powerful worldwide brand is essential for sustained success.

If anyone here is secretly dreaming of making the Olympics, I can tell you exactly how to do it, two words: Sustained Obsession. The obsession isn't so hard. But keeping it sustained is a tough nut to crack. A heart-felt enemy can go a long way to sustaining your obsession. Love your enemy.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

If life is to be sustained, hope must remain.

It's the sustained ability to change that really counts.

Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.

I think sometimes younger people - not necessarily thinkers and intellectuals and the like, but people who are on social media and who are not as informed as journalists or professional thinkers - may get a bit, you know, impatient with the necessity of sustained thinking, sustained argumentation, sustained dialogue.

A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.

The level of discourse in this country is falling to a depth that cannot be sustained.

What else exhausts like sustained deception?

The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.