Top 692 Retain Quotes & Sayings

My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.

Retain the wind by compressing the belly.

What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and, in a sense, retain your innocence and try to practice as much humility as possible.

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.

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

Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?

I want everyone to keep the property that he has acquired for himself according to the principle: benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual. But the state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property.

Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

I've always tried to retain that childlike wonder.

We have yet to learn how to retain our humaneness when assembled in masses.

I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.

When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.

It's very hard to retain the Premier League.

I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.

The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.

If there is a large voter turnout, not only do we retain the White House, but I think we regain the Senate. We win governors' chairs up and down the line. So I believe if you want to retain the White House, if you want to see Democrats do well across the board, I think our campaign is the one that creates the large voter turnout and helps us win.

A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also

I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high.

We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.

Use your CRM to retain customers.

No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.

I believe if a sentence is to retain its strength over time, it needs to be carefully made.

I'd like to retain Trish Stratus's services.

Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

You have privacy if you retain the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.

We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.

Women diet to retain their girlish figures or their boyish husbands.

I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.

My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.

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

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

A truly feminine woman should always retain a little air of mystery.

The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking.

Acquire with the intention to retain, and retain with the intention to grow.

I'm skeptical about even educating voters as a chance for being successful. You know, when we look at what people retain from high school a year after they've graduated, they've forgotten most everything about history and civics and everything, and I think the main worry here is that because your individual vote counts for so little, you just don't have a strong incentive to invest in the knowledge, to retain the knowledge, to process information in a rational way.

It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is.

Unless you have a great deal of purity, it's difficult to retain the higher light.

It's great to retain the Ashes but it just doesn't sit right with me when you don't win it.

We have to hire, retain, and develop the best staff.

One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.

It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.

You retain your health only so long as you are willing.

Men and women will retain their sex in heaven

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

I started taking all these cooking classes. I learned a lot in them, but you think you're going to retain it, and you don't. Under the pressure, it's hard to retain everything.

I don't have many friends, but I want to retain the ones I have.

Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?