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My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance. -- Tim Allen
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace. -- Ludwig Quidde
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth. -- Virginia Satir
In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.' -- Kristin Scott Thomas
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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
Maintenance is terribly important. -- Manolo Blahnik
Preventive Maintenance: Don't start today by doing yesterday's work. -- Deniece Schofield
Today about 95% of the prescription drugs sold are Maintenance drugs-drugs that treat only the symptoms of a disease, and that you are expected to take for the rest of your life. -- Paul Zane Pilzer
I can't deal with high maintenance chicks. -- Jeremy London
Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance. -- Yasmine Bleeth
I like to be stylish and edgy, but also low maintenance. -- Krysten Ritter
Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance. -- Keith Ellison
There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer. -- Betty Buckley
We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance. -- Guy Ritchie
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. -- Kurt Vonnegut
A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I like girls who are cute and naturally funny. As long as they are not too high-maintenance, then we're good. -- Miles Teller
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. -- Rowan Williams
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion. -- John Wycliffe
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth. -- Virginia Satir
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices. -- Richard Cobden
At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences. -- Lawrence Kohlberg
I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that. -- Nancy Reagan
I'm so laid back and not high maintenance in the slightest. If I did get married, I'd probably be dancing down the aisle with the groom. I'd like something unconventional! -- Erin Richards
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state. -- William H. Seward
On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup. -- Rachel Zoe
We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people. -- George Lincoln Rockwell
Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented. -- Frank B. Kellogg
If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine. -- W. Edwards Deming
My look is pretty low maintenance, I have a great team around me for hair and make-up, and they have also taught me some great tricks over the years for when I'm doing my own. -- Alexa Chung
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. -- Marquis de Sade
To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society. -- bell hooks
I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples. -- Frank B. Kellogg
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science. -- Sam Harris
In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. -- Tony Visconti
I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn't afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it's cool if she's a tomboy. -- Chris Brown
Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways. -- John L. Phillips
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. -- Robert Frost
My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car. -- Aubrey de Grey
When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken. -- Cameron Sinclair
The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. -- Robert M. Pirsig
I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers. -- Shilpa Shetty
I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fabulous journey alone. I want someone by my side who I love and who loves me. I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very high maintenance. -- Neil Diamond
Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. -- Elizabeth Warren
When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance. -- Brad Pitt
I get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour. -- Bernie Mac
Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all. -- Jerry Brown
Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly. -- Mallory Jansen
I'm very low-maintenance. -- Paul Dano
Development is maintenance. -- Brian Marick
I am ridiculously high-maintenance. -- Rufus Wainwright
I'm not high maintenance. -- Sienna Miller
I think I'm low-maintenance. -- Douglas Booth
Entropy requires no maintenance. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Im dating a very high-maintenance career. -- Aimee Garcia
Underdevelopment is a lack of maintenance. -- Lucero Isaac
Louisiana, the state road maintenance forgot. -- James Patterson
Im high maintenance, but Im worth it. -- Lara Logan
I'm high maintenance, but I'm worth it. -- Lara Logan
The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance. -- Myles Munroe
I'm the most low-maintenance person on the road. -- Lee Ann Womack
The secret of landscapes isn't creation...It's maintenance. -- Michael Dolan
There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance. -- Tom Robbins
illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions ... -- Sheila Ballantyne
Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force. -- Thorstein Veblen
I'm very low-maintenance when it comes to my beauty routine. -- Eva Green
Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic. -- Robert M. Pirsig
There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance. -- Louis Auchincloss
Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture -- Mark Steyn
All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code. -- Dave Thomas
Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet. -- Robert Atkins
Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace. -- Ludwig Quidde
Im very easy going and low maintenance when it comes to my hair. -- Wendy Raquel Robinson
I'm very easy going and low maintenance when it comes to my hair. -- Wendy Raquel Robinson
The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. -- Ernest Hemingway
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance. -- Ivan Illich
Be yourselves, be spunky, be spontaneous. Low-maintenance is always the biggest plus in the world... -- Ryan Follese
Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life! -- Herb Kelleher
If the relentless personal maintenance plan has taken over your life, give it a rest. -- Willie Geist
I think I used to be lower maintenance. I think I'm slowly becoming higher maintenance. -- Alison Brie
Opinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view. -- Thomas Jefferson
Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice. -- David Hume
The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community. -- Carl Jung
Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance. -- Kate Winslet
I'm far too low maintenance to ever spend more than five minutes getting ready to go out. -- Sienna Miller
People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want. -- Terry Gilliam
Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature. -- Honore de Balzac
Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists. -- Wietse Venema
It's not the upfront capital that kills you, it's the operations and maintenance on the back end. -- Gene Kim
Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government. -- Robert Taft
The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society. -- Adolf Hitler
Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government. -- Abraham Lincoln
The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the -- Scott Adams
I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very ... high maintenance. -- Neil Diamond
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another. -- Fred Brooks
The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave. -- Edward Bellamy
Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry. -- Sloane Crosley
The human body is like a condominium. The thing that keeps you from really enjoying it is the maintenance. -- Jerry Seinfeld
If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance. -- Philippa Gregory
We take better care of the maintenance of our cars than we take care of the maintenance of our bodies. -- David H. Murdock
Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law. -- Learned Hand
Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance. -- Jim Horning
The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons. -- Adam Smith
I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance. -- Marya Hornbacher
I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even. -- Dan Harmon
Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo. -- Wesley Morris
I'm very low maintenance. I use Simple wipes to take off my makeup, wash my hair with whatever's in the shower. -- Amber Le Bon
There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic. -- Liz Vassey
I'm not high maintenance, and I'm not into a highly manicured man. I don't want to see a lot of hair product. -- Cecily Strong
By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them. -- Charles Kennedy
Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement -- Masaaki Imai
Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life. -- Richard Baxter
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. -- Barry Goldwater
In real life I've learned to love not wearing any makeup whatsoever, and I'm super low-maintenance when it comes to my hair. -- Leighton Meester
Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker. -- Charlie Munger
I am really high maintenance and won't walk through the microwave that fries your body. I always request a pat down [in airport]. -- Michelle Visage
Drug programs began to turn their attention and money away from prevention and into maintenance. Methadone was cheaper than social workers, I suppose. -- John Dufresne
I'm not actually very good at the maintenance thing. I don't buff, exfoliate, pluck, rinse, moisturise, suck, bleach... whatever all those women do. -- Isla Fisher

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