(130 quotes found)
“In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.”
Will Rogers
“Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns?”
Warren E. Burger
“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 redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.”
Cyril Connolly
“One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.”
Wallace Stegner
“The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared.”
Francis Galton
“If we come to the point of retaining a sense of a proportion in the midst of all the smallest as well as in the most profound of human emotions, we shall also discover that at the center of every experience is the laughter of God”
Helen Luke
“That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.”
Gore Vidal
“The most important rule is to formulate, clearly and precisely, the goal to be reached, and then to retain it unswervingly in mind throughout all the stages of the execution, which are often long and complex.”
Roberto Assagioli
“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 J. H. Boetcker
