Top 25 Reserves Quotes of 28 - Page 2

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

Conversation, Extremes, Reserves

Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

Men, Bores, Reserves

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.58, Harvard University Press

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

Mark Twain

Cat, Misuse, Reserves

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.90, Courier Corporation

I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.

Betty Friedan

Satisfied, Barricades, Reserves

Fire consumes, but cold preserves.

George R. R. Martin

Fire, Cold, Preserves

George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.3049, Bantam

Create and preserve the image of your choice.

George Harrison

Choices, Be Here Now, Preserves

Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

Baruch Spinoza

Order, Fixed, Preserves

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

Samuel R. Delany

Rhetoric, Discourse, Preserves

Samuel R. Delany (2014). “The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch—“Angouleme””, p.150, Wesleyan University Press

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

Karl Kraus

Age, Talent, Preserves

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major

Gore Vidal

Disaster, Minors, Reserves

Gore Vidal (2002). “Creation: a novel”, Doubleday Books

As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.

Billy Connolly

Successful, Scottish, Reserves

I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder.

Albert Einstein

Wonder, Rational, Reserves

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

William S. Burroughs

Taken, Reserves

A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

Victor Hugo

Paris, Soul, Preserves

Victor Hugo (2006). “Les Miserables: Easyread Large Edition”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.

Veerappa Moily

India, Gas, Reserves

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

Thomas Hobbes

War, Preserves

Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.164

Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects.

Thomas de Quincey

Expression, Objects, Reserves

As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.

Thalia

Singers, Remember, Preserves

Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.

Terry Goodkind

Cost, Bears, Preserves

Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.

Samuel Johnson

Sleep, Preserves

Samuel Johnson (1836). “Prayers and Meditations, composed by S. Johnson ... and published from his manuscripts, by George Strahan ... The fourth edition”, p.49