#retaining

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

#both #compromise #ending #good #hope

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

My biggest problem is retaining the exact information. ↗

— David Cross

#biggest problem #exact #information #problem #retaining

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

— Abdul Kalam

#difficult #game #life #life is a #only

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

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#bones #give #his #hope #person

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

#better #difference #focusing #make #make a difference

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 #creative #creative environment #environment #find

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

#integrity #love #love is #oneself #outside