Quotes and Sayings About Gains
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Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.
-- Aaron Klein -
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.
-- Adam Braun -
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
-- Adolf Hitler -
But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.
-- Agatha Christie -
To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
-- Akio Morita -
If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
-- Alan Greenspan -
Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
-- Albert Camus -
The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
-- Alexander Pope -
I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss.
-- Alexis Herman -
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain, but „til then he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.
-- Alfred Thayer Mahan -
The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.
-- Alice James -
I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income.
-- Allen West -
I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.
-- Amanda Lindhout -
It’s very easy for me to gain weight. Even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn’t do it any longer because I liked my food too much.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
I learn more with each film, and I gain confidence in my style of working. But at the same time, each one is a new monster.
-- Amber Sealey -
Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession... are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques, is true?
-- Andrew Sullivan -
we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it.
-- Ann Bridge -
He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to be less of a pet and more of a friend, if I might choose; but I won't complain of that: I am only afraid his affection loses in depth where it gains in ardour. I sometimes liken it to a fire of dry twigs and branches compared with one of solid coal, very bright and hot; but if it should burn itself out and leave nothing but ashes behind.
-- Anne Bronte -
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.
-- Anne Rice -
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
-- Anthony Eden -
My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?
-- Anthony Edwards -
Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we have sinned against Christ.
-- Anthony the Great -
If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.
-- Antoine R. Ivins
