Retain Quotes

366 Retain quotes by 323 unique authors

When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It… — Aaron Copland
Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it… — Arthur Hugh Clough
One thing that has become clear over the last several days is that we no longer have 135 choices to make, .. It's really one… — Gray Davis
It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is. — Sinead O'Connor
I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they... find on the… — Frank Stella
Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He… — Walter J. Phillips
The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserved his essential race… — Josiah Strong
If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression. — John F. Carlson
Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent;… — Erasmus Darwin
Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national… — Theodore Roosevelt
I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be… — Walt Disney
Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent… — Walt Disney
The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if… — Marcus Garvey
Unless you have a great deal of purity, it's difficult to retain the higher light. — Frederick Lenz
But the challenge is always the same whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
You retain your health only so long as you are willing... — Robert Svoboda
The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our… — Catherine Crowe
Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday? — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now… — Ronald Reagan
In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its… — John Keats
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in… — Thomas Fuller
What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure. — Edwin Louis Cole
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.… — Mitch Daniels
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth. — Christopher Hitchens

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