#maintenance

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#accounts #after #asset #capital #corporation

We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#flash #in fact #low-maintenance #me #missus

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government. ↗

— Robert Taft

#criticism #democratic #democratic government #essential #government

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities. ↗

— William Griffith Wilson

#alcoholism #carry #condition #contingent #cured

A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#documentation #maintenance #architecture

Dude, your girlfriend is so far past high maintenance even the janitor quit. ↗

— Samantha Young

#high-maintenance #humor #humor

I wish I could say I’m low maintenance, but I like some of the finer things in life…like a toothbrush. ↗

— M.A. George

#low-maintenance #paranormal-romance #sarcastic-humor #the-finer-things-in-life #life

If you choose to not deal with an issue, then you give up your right of control over the issue and it will select the path of least resistance. ↗

— Susan Del Gatto

#problem-solving #procrastination #stress-management-maintenance #path

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#commerce #depends #diffusion #education #foreign

I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#being #better #days #done #excellent