Quotes about savings
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Source: The Woman Destroyed
“Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.”
“brb, ttyl ok? wow, i saved a 'ton' of time with those acronyms.”
Source: Midwinterblood
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Popular version of the first sentence: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it."
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Source: Minority Report
“Sometimes it's braver not to fight. Protect them, and save your vengeance for another day.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.”
Source: Raven's Shadow
“I was exhausted. Fighting to save the universe will do that.”
“The life you save may very well be your own.”
Source: 1890s, The Mountains of California (1894), chapter 5: The Passes <!-- Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 328 -->
Context: Accidents in the mountains are less common than in the lowlands, and these mountain mansions are decent, delightful, even divine, places to die in, compared with the doleful chambers of civilization. Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain-passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action. Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.
Variant: You sure you don't need your Prince Charming to come and save you?"
The knot in my stomach evaporated. My Prince Charming huh. "Sure, do you have one handy?
Source: Magic Slays
“You can't save time. You can only spend it, but you can spend it wisely or foolishly.”
Source: The Tao of Pooh
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Rose
Titanic (1997)
Context: A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson, and that he saved me in every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now only in my memory.
“gravity, n.
I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
“Jericho."
"Mac."
"Thank you for saving my life. Again.”
Source: Bloodfever
“How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.”
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
Variant: You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Source: Women
“We save the world by being alive ourselves.”
Source: Gone with the Wind
Entry in his journal before his last public appearance, the ceremony at which he received the National Medal for Literature, quoted by Susan Cheever, Home before Dark Houghton Mifflin (1984).
“With our love, we could save the world.”
“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
"War Shrines"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
" Dust of Snow http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=173526" (1923)
General sources
Source: The Tale of Despereaux
“Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.”
“Thanks again for saving me. Someday, I’ll save you too.”
Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Source: Spirit Bound
Source: Inkspell
“If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Diplomatic Immunity (2002)
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Source: The Normal Christian Life
“Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.”
Sermon 50 "The Use of Money" in The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A.M. (1840) edited by John Emory, Vol. I, p. 446
Popularly paraphrased as:
Make all you can,
Save all you can,
Give all you can.
General sources
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 8, Supplemental image at randi.org http://www.randi.org/images/122801-BlueDot.jpg
Context: Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
Context: Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
Studies in Classic American Literature (1923)
“Surely the earth can be saved
by all the people
who insist
on love.”
Source: Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
“The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.”
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to reach out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if it means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.
