Top 293 Sustaining Quotes & Sayings

Nature is not a drag on growth - its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

Our fundamental goal in getting involved in Bosnia in the summer of 1995 was to end the war. Richard Holbrooke's fundamental goal was to negotiate a peace: a peace that was sustaining and self-sustaining over the long term.

Men and women do not live by bread alone. They also need sustaining ideas.

It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.

I got kicked out of the league because I had a hard time sustaining at the quarterback position.

A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge.

For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.

The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.

There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.

Long-term sustaining growth is a minimum expectation for us.

And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .

We want to help countries ultimately to become self-sustaining. That has to come through economic development.

You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.

Sustaining Peace is happening. But it is the exception - not the norm.

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

Falling in love is biologically natural; sustaining love is biologically un-natural. Sustaining love requires a learned discipline. The discipline of love. The discipline of understanding our partner. (I've never heard someone say I want a divorce - my partner understands me.)

Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action

Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself. The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves.

Building and sustaining tension is always my priority, so home entertainment provides challenges to that.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

Ad revenue is important, but we want to be self-sustaining.

In football, hate can be a beautiful thing; sustaining and nourishing, quite unlike other manifestations of an otherwise destructive emotion.

Exercise is about being grateful for the body you have and sustaining the life you have.

Sustaining a loving heart, even for a moment, makes one a spiritual being.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.

We are financially strong. We are self-sustaining. We don't have an umbilical cord that we are concerned about.

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

Women are the sustaining force of any society - they think of the children and the next generation's chances.

Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

Vince McMahon is one of my all time idols in terms of building a brand and sustaining a great company.

Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes. They are powerful without dominating.

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

Sustaining innovation is the lifeblood of any enterprise. It is the time when we capitalize upon, and recover from, all the disruptive change prior. Most of the operating profits in the world come from sustaining innovation. Much of the market capitalization gains, on the other hand, come from disruptive innovations.

It is my belief that we need a new transnational sustaining 'myth' that can impart value and respect. It is my further belief that we are coming to see our universe and life as creative, without a directing agency. Meaning emerges with life. If this view becomes widespread, it has the promise to become the sustaining myth we need to sustain in turn an emerging global civilization.

Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure irrespective of any of the risks on Earth. Will this happen before our technological civilization disintegrates, leaving this as a might-have-been? Will the self-sustaining space communities be established before a catastrophe sets back the prospect of any such enterprise, perhaps foreclosing it forever? We live at what could be a defining moment for the cosmos.

The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

I'd be the last person in the world to deny that there are many people for whom faith is - can be a great sustaining force.

Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.

Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony.

Humanitarian response, sustainable development, and sustaining peace are three sides of the same triangle.

The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.

One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.

The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.

I realized there's a difference between creating a character and sustaining a character. The challenge that comes with sustaining a character is that you have this sudden impulse to think about all the things the audience liked.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.

What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.

I have a longing for violin or organ. Is it too simple to say those sustaining sounds symbolise immortality?