Gain Quotes - page 3

For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. (Paul)
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. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss. View quote
Penelope Lively
Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education! View quote
Roger Moore
The motives that explained human murder bunched, historically, into three groups: material gain; personal grudge and sociopathy. View quote
Adam Roberts
It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field. View quote
Dan Ariely
It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct. View quote
Elihu Root
The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there? View quote
Claire LaZebnik
There's no great loss without some small gain. View quote
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. (Claude M. Bristol)
Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain. View quote
William Vickrey
I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. View quote
Yves Tanguy
After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through. View quote
Adam Rickitt
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. View quote
Bernadette Devlin
Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head. View quote
Kip Winger
People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life. View quote
Thomas Jane
I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court. View quote
Vince Carter
A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values? View quote
William Greider
We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it. View quote
Eldridge Cleaver
Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access. (Banksy)
Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain; Here Patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledged to Religion, Liberty, and Law. View quote
Joseph Story
To gain freedom is to gain simplicity. View quote
Joan Miró
But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago. View quote
Merton Miller
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience; for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principal motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold. View quote
Simone Weil