#reserve

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#dignity #enough #frank #generous #independent

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman. ↗

— George Andrew Olah

#added #also #becoming #chairman #cleveland

The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder. ↗

— Richard J. Daley

#disorder #policeman #preserve

The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder. ↗

— Richard J. Daley

#disorder #here #police #preserve

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#find #helped #i #jazz #me

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you. ↗

— Michael Korda

#hold #know #never #other #people

The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves. ↗

— Jack Hanna

#destroy #eventually #habitats #important #important thing

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#every #free #free people #fruitful #good

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#betterment #concept #content #essential #ideal

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. ↗

— George F. Kennan

#civilized #concept #generation #history #implies