preserving life Quotes

Who so ever kills a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he has killed all mankind, and who so ever saves the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for our kids and grandkids.

The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence.

This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.

If, as the dowager had said, we are nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such strangely shaped lives? Wouldn't our genetic purpose-to transmit DNA-be served just as well if we lived simple lives, not bothering our heads with a lot of extraneous thoughts, devoted entirely to preserving life and procreating? Did it benefit the genes in any way for us to lead such intricately warped, even bizarre, lives?

He who retreats lives longer.

Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.