100+ Retaining Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

A mild attack of apoplexy may be called death's retaining fee.

- Gilles Menage

source: Menagiana Pt II

topic: May, Fees, Retaining

quote but teaching is like climbing a mountain fawn m brodie Quotes

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

topic: Fall, Fall Back, Retaining

Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult.

- William Goldman

source: William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.298, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Difficult, Wit, Retaining, Fezzik

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

source: Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

topic: Teacher, Retirement, Wall, Diversion, Housework

Retain a calm heart, sit like a turtle, walk swiftly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog

- Li Ching-Yuen

topic: Dog, Heart, Sleep, Retaining, Calm Down

The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.

- Anne Geddes

topic: Photography, Impact, Years, Great Photography, Inspirational Photography

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Education, Time, Science, Keep A Positive Attitude, Opposing Ideas

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

topic: Love, Romantic, Giving, Inspirational Romance, Giving Love

Kids today are sold so much, by corporations and media and commercials and advertising and music videos, that I do. A lot of times, they retain that stuff and wear it, and that's the concept of a hipster. It's about owning it and redefining it, on your own level. It's a way of retaining control and meaning, in a world where you're being told to think in a certain way.

- Joseph M. Kahn

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Hipster, Kids, Thinking, Owning It, Retaining

Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling.

- Gavin Lyall

topic: Morning, Writing, Feelings, Morning After, Retaining

I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.

- Paul McGann

source: "Portrait of the artist: Paul McGann, actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 03, 2009.

topic: Artist, Ageing, Admire, Retaining

I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware.

- John Adams

source: John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.374

topic: Law, Might, Revolution, Retaining

As a young woman, Ama Ata Aidoo the freedom fighter vowed never to write love stories. Let’s delight in the fact that over the years she has changed her mind about the value of writing about love, as her rich edited collection of highly original and diverse ‘African Love Stories’ demonstrates. She has traveled her path and had the courage to grow and change while retaining her deep commitment to Pan- Africanism. Love flourishes, after all is said and done.

- Amina Mama

topic: Writing, Commitment, Years, Young Women, Africanism

The biggest challenges are in the same vein. It's about retaining all that stuff. Also, the physical stuff is not as easy as we originally thought. I play a lot of sports and I remember saying, "Oh, I'll be fine, running around or doing anything."

- Steven Yeun

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Sports, Running, Play, Retaining

[My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something beyond its mere ordinary meaning, while also retaining all the qualities of that ordinary meaning. In other words, it's a bear, but it's also suggesting something else, just by virtue of the attention to it. But it's not "symbolic" in that way we are taught to think about things in poems.

- Matthew Zapruder

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Thinking, Quality, Ordinary, Retaining, Suggesting

Places that succeed in attracting and retaining creative class people prosper; those that fail don't.

- Richard Florida

topic: Class, People, Creative, Retaining

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

- Thorstein Veblen

topic: Mean, Names, Community, Retaining, Conspicuous Consumption

But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite to the great and mean, to the celebrated and obscure; the art of moderating the desires, of repressing the appetites; and of conciliating or retaining the favour of mankind.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1792). “The rambler”, p.233

topic: Art, Mean, Mislead Us, Retaining

Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved... The possibility of the Other appearing as an object of a need while retaining his alterity, or again,the possibility of enjoying the Other... this simultaneity of need and desire, or concupiscence and transcendence,... constitutes the originality of the erotic which, in this sense, is the equivocal par excellence.

- Emmanuel Levinas

topic: Excellence, Desire, Needs, Retaining, Transcendent

Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.400

topic: Mean, Office, Advantage, Retaining, Ascendancy

Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect of the superhero's life: This is how talented people make movies for 14-year-olds while retaining their self-respect.

- David Edelstein

topic: Self, Years, People, Retaining, Freaky

The law no passion can disturb. 'Tis void of desire and fear, lust and anger. 'Tis mens sine affectu, written reason, retaining some measure of the divine perfection. It does not enjoin that which pleases a weak, frail man, but, without any regard to persons, commands that which is good and punishes evil in all, whether rich or poor, high or low.

- John Adams

source: John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.114

topic: Passion, Men, Law, Retaining

Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.

- Kevin Kelly

topic: Business, Heart, Years, Retaining

Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that only the few will be saved and the many damned, have been shed, replaced by strummed guitars and saccharine smiles. It has reinvented itself so often, and with such breathtaking hypocrisy, in the interests of retaining its hold on the gullible, that a medieval monk who woke today, like Woody Allen's Sleeper, would not be able to recognise the faith that bears the same name as his own.

- A.C. Grayling

source: "Can an atheist be a fundamentalist?" by A. C. Grayling, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2006.

topic: Guitar, Names, Hypocrisy, Retaining, Sleepers

The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.

- George Santayana

source: George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

topic: Ignorance, Animal, Expression, Retaining