Love is union with somebody or something outside oneself under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Gay marriage is the last bastion of to me... as a legal ceremonial sentimental and religious side it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps like not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.

Perhaps to the uninformed it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning but the close alliance with each other of the different branches of science will explain the difficulty.

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.

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

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

I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.

If America wants to retain its position as a global power its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

You feel better when you're eating food that retains nutritional value.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That addressed as free-born autonomous men and women of God-given dignity they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

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