Retaining Quotes

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
Abdul Kalam

Life, Game, Person

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

Love, Integrity, Self

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

Hope, Person, Give

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

Good, Hope, Sacrifice

Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.
Madeleine Albright

Him, Goal, Cannot

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
Hermann Hesse

Faith, History, Study

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.
Jeb Bush

Teacher, Difference, Quality

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.
Gus Van Sant

Marriage, Legal, Gay

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.
Marissa Mayer

Best, Technology, Find

I repeat my demand that the occupier leave the land of our beloved Iraq unconditionally, without retaining bases or signing agreements.
Muqtada al Sadr

Leave, Land, Iraq

We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in that equation every time.
Jay Weatherill

Time, Future, May

Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.
L'Wren Scott

Age, Women, Power

My biggest problem is retaining the exact information.
David Cross

Problem, Biggest, Exact

I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that.
Ashley Scott

Time, Mistakes, Hard

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

Cooking, Mountain, Housework

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

Good, Strength, Means

They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?
Clifford Longley

End, Give, Remember

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