Gain Quotes

South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.

For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Furthermore, and a point I really want to make very strongly, is that this is the first Administration since Herbert Hoover not to create a net gain in jobs in the course of its Administration.

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.

I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies.

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.