#retain

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

#climbing #cooking #diversion #housework #lark

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#deeply #despise #either #high #men

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#american president #bank #chase #loyal #manhattan

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. ↗

— Lord Byron

#feeling #i #i can #long #nature

So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain. ↗

— Leon Uris

#obtain #position #retain #very #writing

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money. ↗

— Jack L. Chalker

#books #first #money #novels #off

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years? ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#intense #makes #newness #over #quality

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

— Daniel Craig

#even #i #more #now #privacy

My biggest problem is retaining the exact information. ↗

— David Cross

#biggest problem #exact #information #problem #retaining

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#belong #conflict #element #frankly #i