Retain Quotes

366 Retain quotes by 323 unique authors

A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in new experience, I… — Bill Watterson
When the reality of power has been surrendered, it's playing a dangerous game to seek to retain the appearance of it; the external aspect of… — Alexis de Tocqueville
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness… — Edmund Burke
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity. — Thucydides
You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV. — Kathy Reichs
To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and… — Samuel Johnson
In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform any action that… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation. — Nhat Hanh
It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance... As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided,… — Adolf Hitler
At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any… — David Puttnam
So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain. — Leon Uris
I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator. — Conrad Black
We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people. — Vicente Fox
As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we… — Felicity Jones
Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces. — Mike Jackson
Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail. — Colson Whitehead
The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy… — Bertrand Russell
When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility… — Jeff Olson
It is much harder to retain your position at the top than to get to the top. — Kirsty Coventry
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance. — Clifton Fadiman
Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea… — Aristotle
There exists for every liquid a temperature at which no amount of pressure is sufficient to retain it in the liquid form. — Thomas Andrews
Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant?… — Thomas Traherne
It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the… — Samuel Johnson
One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples. — Wallace Stegner

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