Retain Quotes

366 Retain quotes by 323 unique authors

When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their… — Terry Goodkind
While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. — Alan Moore
I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to… — Beatrix Potter
Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some… — Henry David Thoreau
She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a… — Paulo Coelho
The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the… — George Eliot
Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and… — Judith McNaught
Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.â€ â€œSir?â€ â€œIt seems that you have managed to retain this… — Terry Pratchett
If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly… — Eric Greitens
Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power. — Sigmund Freud
The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. -… — John Green
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea… — Michael Drayton
A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a… — John C. Maxwell
No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for… — Giuseppe Mazzini
Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and… — C.S. Lewis
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I admit I was somewhat concerned when we started to sign so many players - naturally you are going to worry about whether you can… — Frank Lampard
The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain. — Matthew Henry
If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we… — John Calvin

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