Retained Quotes

98 quotes by 91 authors

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and… — Vladimir Lenin
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. — Mahatma Gandhi
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in… — Cyril Connolly
I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more. — Daniel Craig
The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. — Maria Mitchell
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them. — Marcel Proust
Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be… — Earl Warren
I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving… — Ashwin Sanghi
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
From the first time heâ€™d met her, heâ€™d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a… — Charles de Lint
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for… — George Santayana
the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the… — Charles Bukowski
Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison. — Ursula K. Le Guin
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
He rose, offering his hand to Evanlyn to assist her. Even though she was lithe and athletic as a cat, she took it, enjoying the… — John Flanagan
I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right… — Jonathan Edwards
An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall… — Benjamin Carson
Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What… — Mahatma Gandhi
Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it… — Siri Hustvedt

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