Retain
To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like.
To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor.
To restrain; to prevent.
To belong; to pertain.
To keep; to continue; to remain.
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Retain Quotations
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
Soren Kierkegaard
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Thomas Fuller
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Francis Bacon
So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
Leon Uris
Retain Translations
retain in Danish is opholde
retain in Dutch is reserveren, detineren, ophouden
retain in French is retenez, retiennent, retiens, retenons
retain in German is einbehalten, festhalten, beibehalten, halten
retain in Italian is trattenere
retain in Portuguese is retenha
retain in Spanish is retener
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