Quotes of Retain - somelinesforyou

“ I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest Man. ”

- George Washington

“ Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything. ”

- Morihei Ueshiba

“ Remember we're all in this alone. ”

- Lily Tomlin

“ A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind. ”

- Robert Oxton Bolton

“ We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium. ”

- Ansel Adams

“ Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue. ”

- Peter Ackroyd

“ The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. ”

- William Boetcker

“ It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. ”

- Pliny the Younger

“ Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. ”

- Otto Von Bismarck

“ 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 in government. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another — too often ending in the loss of both. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually. ”

- Rose Saperstein

“ He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. ”

- Fawn M. Brodie

“ I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see 50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do. ”

- Unknown

“ Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation. ”

- Will Rogers

“ No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them. ”

- Otto Weininger
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