#sustain

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#climb #figure #how #level #once

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. ↗

— Epictetus

#lies #philosophy #sustain #two #words

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#action #hunger #important #lever #poverty

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#development #during #five #health #high-level

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#aids #center #development #health #only

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

— Martin Van Buren

#concessions #emanated #established #forbearance #forever

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#nervous #nervous system #oils #only #sustain

We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail. ↗

— George Osborne

#bail #banks #big #deeply #fail

The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. 'The General Strike' attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model. ↗

— Justin Sane

#attempts #because #completely #consumer #culture

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out. ↗

— Paul Newman

#environment #farmer #inspirational #sainthood #sustainability