Gains Quotes - Page 27

What is one man's gain is another's loss.

Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.

But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.

Nothing is difficult, when gain and honour unite their influence.

The Clintons have sold everything about America and its policy and its future for their own personal gain in terms of amassing incredible wealth.

The house in Chappaqua is up for sale, ... and you can get it for a bargain on Wednesday.

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.

It is precisely when we help one another that we gain our victories over corruption, but the victory is assured only when we help one another with all our strength.

I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.

I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.

You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes.

Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by empirical observation.

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

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

I'm dead, not impotent. Nasty rumors like that must be squashed before they gain momentum. Feel free to emphasize how very functional I am.

The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation.

We rejoice in all the Savior has done for us. He has made it possible for each of us to gain our salvation and exaltation.

Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.

Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.

An evil gain equals a loss.

There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.