#retain

I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#change #force #fresh #fresh look #i

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#had #object #possession #pursuit #retains

If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon. ↗

— Paul Begala

#bush #campaign #compliant #congress #embark

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. ↗

— Lake Bell

#almost #always #bit #costumes #fashion

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

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

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. ↗

— Dennis Kozlowski

#am #i #i am #lawyers #life

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

#basis #community #conspicuous #consumption #gaining

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

#cannot #case #churches #end #give

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not. ↗

— Daniel Pipes

#compromise #either #including #insult #retain