#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

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

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

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#faith #history #meaning #means #nevertheless

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