#reserved

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#amending #continual #deeds #defending #democracy

When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#far #fates #guys #higher #higher level

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality. ↗

— Dee Hock

#best #body #cannot #heart #influence

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person. ↗

— Horace

#modest person #passes #person #reserved #silent

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#aristocratic #attitude #culture #does #emotions

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. ↗

— James Allen

#aim #devote #legitimate #purpose #single

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#everybody #life #only #preserved #privileged

Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden. ↗

— Carl D. Anderson

#heart #home #i #place #reserved

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. ↗

— Rose Kennedy

#i #like #me #often #old

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#carefully #century #dalton #destroyed #during