#maintain

Talking about Korea, it has pretty high capital ratios at banks and maintains a good credit rating. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#banks #capital #credit #credit rating #good

Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure. ↗

— Byron Nelson

#concentrate #every #great #how #learned

Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandise to either one of these governments that persisted in maintaining its military zone. ↗

— George William Norris

#american #any #declared #either #embargo

To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time. ↗

— George William Norris

#beginning #believe #done #had #i

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#assertive #began #both #british #canada

I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#failing #generally #i #i think #long

I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development. ↗

— Li Peng

#active role #am #cause #china #contribution

And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#always #among #arabs #arms #been

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#book #chattering #fiction #i #i think

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#came #curiosity #experiences #i #i always