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I'm intact, and I don't give a damn. -- Arthur Rimbaud
Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact. -- Martha Beck
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. -- Victor Hugo
It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact. -- Sarah McLachlan
My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it. -- Jewel
I'm one of those rare breed of rock n' rollers with a brain, probably because the brain's still intact. -- Suzi Quatro
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. -- Katharine Hepburn
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. -- Warren Buffett
I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble. -- Dr. Dre
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. -- Sun Tzu
China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia. -- Jose Rizal
It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy. -- Dale Earnhardt
Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives. -- Larry Elder
My fan following is intact. They only like to see me in movies, which I am still doing for them. I do not need to do any long interviews or chat shows. -- Mithun Chakraborty
The science supporting the relationship between carbohydrates and dementia is quite exciting, as it paves the way for lifestyle changes that can profoundly affect a person's chances of remaining intact, at least from a brain perspective. -- David Perlmutter
There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into new ecological niches, yet preserving intact its story of grace, of love improbably triumphant. -- Francis Spufford
Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. -- Naomi Wolf
We need to make Net Neutrality the law. We need to elect a Congress that will make it a priority to keep this important principal intact - and insure equal and open access to the Internet for all. -- Chellie Pingree
In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong. -- James E. Faust
But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music. -- Yo-Yo Ma
We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished. -- Eamon de Valera
I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a scientific lesson, for example - when the science fiction book changes one thing but leaves the rest of science intact and explores the consequences of that. That's actually very valuable. -- Richard Dawkins
I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life. -- John Milius
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. -- James Wolcott
In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact. -- Andrea Bocelli
You gotta keep the funny intact. -- Seth MacFarlane
...as for me, I am intact; and I don't care. -- Arthur Rimbaud
At the core of every child is an intact human. -- Riane Eisler
The subtle body must be intact to transmit the kundalini. -- Frederick Lenz
The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact. -- Maurice Blanchot
My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact -- John Henrik Clarke
Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind. -- Jack Kerouac
I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact. -- Twyla Tharp
It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy. -- Lou Reed
If say 90% of Christian marriages were intact, people would be writing about it. -- Randy Carlson
Sometimes you just have to let people escape with their good intentions intact. -- Claudio Sanchez
People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough. -- Maya Angelou
In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact. -- Donald E. Westlake
Helping Africans navigate the transition to modernity with a huge, wonderful wildlife resource still intact. -- Patrick Bergin
Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Once spun,The silken thread of all our aspirationsRemains intact,It can never be broken. -- Scott Hastie
I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact. -- Haruki Murakami
Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact. -- Jesse Jackson
I think my soul is intact, but my methods of reaching people are completely different. -- Michael Franti
Our job is to keep what is working intact and not destroy what we have got. -- Sylvia Earle
I love being under submission to my husband ... I believe in keeping the male ego intact. -- Tammy Faye Bakker
In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.) -- Joe Manchin
Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact -- Jacques Ellul
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The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact. -- Rabindranath Tagore
I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact. -- Nat Hentoff
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First is the man ...and then the music. If the man is not intact, the music will not happen. -- Gino Vannelli
Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact. -- Abbi Glines
Even as you wrestle with the ideas of an opponent, you must keep the dignity of the opponent intact. -- Ravi Zacharias
If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life. -- Gordon Parks
Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this. -- Sun Tzu
Even now that I'm married and 28, my room's still intact the way it was when I went to high school. -- Jordana Brewster
After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead. -- Tony Judt
Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not. -- D. H. Lawrence
What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact. -- Warren Buffett
I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact. -- David Levithan
Every zombie story is fundamentally about a breakdown of order, with the infrastructure intact. That infrastructure might be on fire, yes. -- Patton Oswalt
I consider myself the head coach whose job is to keep this winning team intact. I keep everybody focused and motivated. -- Monte Lipman
Having the presence of mind to react to any situation onstage is what makes the best performers keep their spontaneity intact. -- Marni Nixon
Feeling fear is a good sign that your survival instincts are intact. You need to appreciate the dangers to stay safe. -- Zoe Bell
There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost. -- Sophie Swetchine
I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die. -- Bryce Courtenay
Directing offers you the hope that your vision will reach the screen, unmolested and intact. Therefore, it's tantalizing to all writers. -- Jon Spaihts
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. -- J. G. Ballard
If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck. -- Jerry Coleman
I'm going to design again, but I come back when it's the right project, so I keep my passion for it intact. -- Hedi Slimane
It is hard to sever the cords that tie us to our slavery and leave intact those that bind us to ourselves. -- Patricia Hampl
Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings. -- Mary Oliver
Research points to the fact that being born without trauma is the foundation for having an intact capacity to love and trust. -- Robin Lim
The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever. -- Joel Silver
The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact. -- Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God. -- Silvia Cartwright
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact. -- Aldous Huxley
I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing. -- Octavia Butler
Challenges in medicine are moving from 'Treat the symptoms after the house is on fire' to 'Can we preserve the house intact?' -- Elizabeth Blackburn
Open your eyes! The world is still intact; it is as pristine as it was on the first day, as fresh as milk! -- Paul Claudel
The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact. -- George Orwell
The wall of silence in the Interior Ministry, which protects those who are widely believed to have ordered this and similar crimes, remains intact. -- Garry Robbins
We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact. -- Angelus Silesius
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter De Vries
I note at the age of ten a fully developed ability not quite to enjoy myself, a capacity I have retained intact ever since. -- Alan Bennett
Truest soul is he who wishes the same as himself for others and purest soul is he who does this with his heart intact. -- Jamil Hussain
Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle. -- Veronica Roth
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The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry. -- Jamie Bell
The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
That is my job, right? To comfort him. To keep the portrait of what he left behind intact. Isn't that a woman's duty during wartime? -- Suzanne Hayes
The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact. -- Michael Nesmith
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall. -- Jodi Picoult
Let nothing of the truths that have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but let them be preserved intact in word and in meaning. -- Pope Gregory XVI
I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth. -- Shan Sa
I came to the conclusion that bringing Humans to earth with an intact ability to LOVE is essential if we are to survive as a species. -- Robin Lim
I hate to create cynicism about politicians. We just need to invade. Regular people need to run for office and keep their balls and ovaries intact. -- Jane Fonda
Everyone felt comfortable with these guys and what their vision was, and when they said they want to keep the staff intact, that was very encouraging. -- Michael Nutter
Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element. -- Gloria E. Anzaldúa
If you look at the first commercial transactions on the Internet, few of the early companies necessarily survived intact, but the ideas they invented became the industry. -- James Heywood
The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact. -- Larry Burkett
No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality. -- Aldous Huxley
Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity. -- Jeb Bush
I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet. -- Zahi Hawass
Those of little faith mistake local cloud cover for general darkness. Keeping spiritually intact results in our keeping precious perspective by seeing "things as they really are." -- Neal A. Maxwell
Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element. -- Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact. -- Erma Bombeck
When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact. -- Warren Buffett
You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are greatly feared as people grow older. -- Deepak Chopra
The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out. -- Amos Oz
When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact -- Warren Buffett
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact. -- Wyndham Lewis
I imagine a world in which all humans are born with an intact capacity to love, and I am willing to devote my life to making it happen. -- Robin Lim
The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact. -- Rebecca Goldstein
No matter how obstacles may play you over the bar, you will be able to assume your shape when your passion is always intact. You will not burst! -- Israelmore Ayivor

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