Gain Quotes

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape.

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.

And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.

I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.