Retain Quotes

366 Retain quotes by 323 unique authors

The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the… — C.S. Lewis
My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain. — Miguel de Cervantes
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form. — Henry Ward Beecher
The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary… — Nathaniel Branden
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny… — Thomas Jefferson
All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.'… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we have… — Philip K. Dick
The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it,… — Mortimer Adler
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing… — Leonardo da Vinci
Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it,… — Twyla Tharp
The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all… — Washington Irving
We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though… — Eric Weiner
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation… — C.S. Lewis
Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing.… — Isaac Asimov
...that swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous… — Vladimir Nabokov
Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity. — E F Schumacher
An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm… — E. M. Forster
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the… — Gaston Bachelard
And we, spectators always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! It fills us. We arrange it. It collapses. We re-arrange it, and collapse ourselves.… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic… — Walter Isaacson
That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to retain them, to… — Ann Patchett
Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics: —missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the universe.… — Mother Teresa
If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but… — Muhammad Yunus
All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings. — H.G. Wells

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