Sustain Quotations

I'd never thought much about a series, because I liked the idea of picking a script I liked with a character I thought I could sustain for an hour. In a series, you live with one character day in and day out - and you only hope it will be one that will not drive you crazy.

For the majority of my career, I've been surprised that I've been able to sustain any kind of a plan. I was always happy to have the job, and I was having a good time. I was growing. But I don't feel all that strongly about my work.

Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of Draculas unloosed on the world in the long wake of Stoker's novel.

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

It's not just professional athletes and soldiers who are at risk from traumatic brain injury. More than 1.7 million people a year sustain a traumatic brain injury, and about 50,000 of them die each year, according the Centers for Disease Control. There are both emotional and financial costs from these injuries.

Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.

A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.

If you only get money, but you don't care about a thing, right or wrong, you cannot last. That cannot sustain you for the future.

The newer homes did not sustain as much damage because they were built to better safety codes; they were better designed, higher wind loads for the roof. All of those facets made those homes sustain the storm a whole lot better.

How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

The Anti-Slavery public have generously responded to our appeal, and sent the means to enable us to fit them out well, to pay their passages, supply them with many useful articles and give the Missionaries money to sustain themselves for a while.

Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively.

You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.

Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity.

One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that you can't sustain for four straight hours.

My parents are a bedrock. And I have three complex, strong, and funny sisters who inspire and sustain me.

A woman of faith is blessed by faithful men in her life who hold the priesthood of God and honor this privilege: her father, bishop, husband, brothers, sons. They value her and the divine gifts given by God to His daughter. They sustain and encourage, and they understand the great mission of her life as a woman. They love her; they bless her.

Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.

Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.

How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do.

Just tasking a team to be creative won't get you to be innovative. It's having a corporate climate that gives people the space to experiment and take risks. Only then can you truly sustain it.

If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which we all benefit, but for which no-one helps. We have to point the spotlight on the family, and make political choices that sustain the family.

The gap between rich and poor is widening dramatically. There's a hangar at the Cairo airport for private jets, billionaires are on the Forbes list, and Egypt's annual per-capita income is two thousand dollars. How can you sustain that?

And the bottom line is, is that they are illegal aliens entering our country. And we simply cannot sustain that kind of activity. Bottom line is it's a backdoor to amnesty and I don't believe the American people support that.

When your heart speaks to you about what you need to do to sustain life on this planet, listen to it, make a difference, and be an inspiration for generations to come. Be inspired by people like Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Christopher Reeve, Albert Schweitzer, Helen Keller, and many others.

For its health, cricket needs to look outward to the sharpest minds, to people who sustain and nurture brands and often take hard but necessary decisions. Cricket cannot be bound by cricketing minds alone.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.

The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations.

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.

We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years.

Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy.

Your cells are not working as hard as your dog's but harder than your horse's. The bigger the animal, the less energy needed to sustain a gram of tissue.

From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal reach.

If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.

We are in an international marketplace for talent, and American colleges and universities need to be able to attract students and faculty from around the world if we want to sustain our excellence.

I do definitely believe that there is life away from this planet. I mean, we've kind of established that with the fact that we found bacteria on meteorites, and we've kind of used that to backtrack and show how this Earth, this planet, could have formed the ability to sustain life in the first place.

Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.

Designing is so easy - it's the business that is hard. That's why you really have to respect Ralph Lauren - look at what he's done. Anybody who can sustain themselves should be applauded.

Countries that are agricultural can, at a low standard of living, sustain themselves. You can be self-sufficient; the money economy is a relatively insignificant part of the total economy. Singapore never was an agricultural country.

As I have shown, I will defend democracy with arms when it is threatened by violence; with firmness when it is weakened by division; with law and order when it is subverted by anarchy; and always, I will try to sustain it by wise policies of economic progress so that a democracy means not just an empty liberty, but a full life for all.

No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'

When you destroy a population, once femicide happens, we're going to see the end of humanity, because I don't know how you sustain a future without vitalised women.

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy Earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it.

India needs to sustain its high growth rate.

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn't hire me as a real writer.

The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of the place. I had about as good a run there as anybody, but it's still a tough ask. I mean, the person I think with the best career in Australia is Ray Meagher, in 'Home and Away.'

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

Peace in this life is based upon faith and testimony. We can all find hope from our personal prayers and gain comfort from the scriptures. Priesthood blessings lift us and sustain us. Hope also comes from direct personal revelation, to which we are entitled if we are worthy.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

The other thing you get with Grant Hill is the leadership, the professionalism and the good, strong positive character. He brings that element into the locker room and into your team as well. He's just doing really well and it looks to me that this time he'll be able to sustain it the entire season.

We are proud to be recognized in the magic quadrant report. We believe our listing in the Challenger quadrant confirms our ability to sustain our position in the marketplace. Looking forward, we will continue to position ourselves in the forefront of the industry by delivering superior help desk services.

We started this right after our first year because we knew, if we were going to sustain the sport in our town, we needed to attract more players.

We still need oil imports to sustain growth. In the environment of high international oil prices, our import bill is also soaring.

We started hot, but couldn't maintain it. We got tired and couldn't sustain our defensive intensity. They wore us down and killed us on the glass in the second half.

We started executing offensively and got stops defensively. Basketball is a game of runs. We had to sustain ours a little longer, and we did.

Until we can reach and sustain job growth of at least 150,000 every month, there will be growing slack in the job market. And until that happens, we are unlikely to see the kind of healthy wage and income growth that can sustain a strong recovery.

While many parts of the United Nations have been involved in the peace-building process, the system has lacked a dedicated entity to oversee the process, ensure its coherence or sustain it through the long haul.

We believe we have developed a relationship with Russia that can sustain controversy, differences and difficulties, however sharp they may become,

We're going to have to be able to take control of the ball. We're going to have to be able to sustain some drives. Last year, we would have a couple of first downs and then have a fizzle, especially in the second half.

Workout numbers for offensive linemen historically have been very overrated. That's when you get back to who can sustain a block and stay on his feet and give you the fire you need. You always look at who is a true football player in this draft. You throw out the workout numbers, and Jason Spitz from Louisville will be one of those guys.

We experienced 1GB/sec., and we can handle 100M bit/sec. on a typical strong day operating at 30% capacity. During the attack, we had eight to 10 times regular capacity, and no one can sustain that.

We're finally grasping the big picture. That's why this opportunity is so important for us now. If we can continue to keep playing with that focus, then we'll become more consistent and we'll be building on something that can sustain us regardless of who we're playing and hopefully into the future.

Through extensive disaster and business resumption planning and heroic efforts by corporate and local employees, we managed to sustain the highest levels of customer service in the aftermath of the hurricane and to achieve a full recovery of operations in record time.

Through every downfall of life.. The POWER OF GOD works in the hearts of people to help you sustain and balance faith!

We're ready to play when we come up from the locker room. We jump on teams and sustain it.

We lacked the consistent play throughout the game to win. We were too streaky. It's hard to win like that. You have to be able to sustain an effort a little bit better.

Vegas will continue to grow and it will sustain downward trends.

Ultimately, I did what I wanted to do. If I can throw seven innings the rest of the way and we sustain this lead, it's going to help me a lot.

Ultimately, for them to sustain their growth and be successful in the long term, they're going to have to move in new directions and tackle some new product lines that they don't have and haven't historically done. That's going to take significant investment.

Ultimately, for the economic recovery to sustain itself, we have to see the labor market improve. As the tax-cut benefits fade, consumers will look for more fundamental reasons to spend money, and there will have to be some job growth.

We have no choice, ... This is a crisis. We can sustain this as long as we need to, to get them back with their families or absorb them into the community.

We want to build a team that has ability to sustain itself, not just an ability to win a few more games right away. We've studied all the expansion teams. We're working under the idea that it's a marathon, not a sprint.

What we know, ... is that two hikers on the Grinnell Glacier Trail, at about 10 a.m., had a close encounter with a sow grizzly bear and two cubs. They did sustain bear bites, they dropped and rolled to avoid the attack, and they fell 30 feet down an embankment.

The only way we are going to sustain audience interest in theatre is to ensure that we attract quality new entrants on an ongoing basis.

The reality is, we can't sustain ourselves with property tax dollars because the state is taking so much money away from counties,

When I fell, I didn't think I would be in this situation two weeks later. My leg has made a tremendous improvement over the last 15 days. At this point, I can do about 95 percent of the physical training activities. The challenge arises when I have to jump or sustain more impact to my leg, especially while skiing.

We are taking the decline of these killer whales seriously and we will work to sustain and support this population.

We're here to be with her, and to help her in a spiritual way. I think our presence here is a way to sustain the possibility of freedom.

We've struggled, that's for sure. We haven't played to the level where we can take control of the game and consistently put points on the board. We're just very inconsistent. We can't seem to sustain a drive because there's a missed assignment, a penalty or some other breakdown.

We've seen 15%, we've seen 11%, we've seen such high levels of appreciation. The market cannot sustain that.

When I got to Paris, it was a different world. French radio-another universe from U.S. radio. I found music that could sustain me. I found jazz and other music that I could call mine.

The principal impact we've had so far is to reduce their ability to sustain themselves, to reduce their supplies. We are now beginning to focus more on the troops on the ground. That began last night with sustained attacks on their staging areas.

The primary question is, are you going to be able to produce cars and trucks that are compelling enough to sustain or even gain market share. Health care and pension costs are important issues but the primary issue is always what does your top line look like.

What I am saying is that people are not robots. One cannot simply dictate that tariffs increase whenever the price of oil increases. For me, the role of the state is to sustain people to remain productive

When you can get that kind of field position through special teams it's a big advantage. Guys like that, the one thing it does is it gets the guys in front of them to keep blocking longer and sustain their blocks because they know that whenever he touches the ball he can go the distance.

We're showing flashes of brilliance. The key now is to sustain it. People are excited about us in town. I hear about it all the time when I'm out there in the community. But it won't mean a thing if we can't keep it going.

We're concerned that McDonald's may not be able to sustain these levels of comparable sales gains over the next 8 to 9 months. We expect sales growth going forward to be in the mid single-digits of between 4 to 6 percent as the company enters a period of tougher comparisons from a year ago.

Life is too challenging for external rewards to sustain us.

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Sixty-six members can't sustain this place. We meet the second and fourth Wednesday of every month. Only five or six people show up anymore.

She made some mistakes. But when she hit the ball, it was so strong that I had no chance to sustain rallies. I tried to change speeds a bit, but her forehand return was powerful today.

Motorola's been on a tear but to sustain these market-share gains, there'd better be some very nice phones coming out later in '06.

Motorola's been on a tear ... but to sustain these market-share gains, there'd better be some very nice phones coming out later in 2006.

Moving targets, ever-shifting theories, each one advanced to replace the last as it has fallen, fallen victim to the facts, ... Empty pots. Attractive containers, but when you take the lid off, you'll find nothing to sustain you.

Maybe you can make another 50 percent from here, but people are skittish, ... The problem in this market is that everyone's looking for the momentum play. Any sort of fear that a company isn't going to be able to sustain a momentum ends up a reason to dump shares.