Retained Quotes

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

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.

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.

I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood.

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.

I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.

She seemed to mean what she said. She said pretty much this: I retained some lawyers, I have to move on with my life, I am divorcing you, and then she added, I need money.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.