I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action
To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.
We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.
It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God.
Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.
I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.
We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends.
I don't particularly gain water; I don't have water retention.
When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature.
Certainly, you want to be liked, but as you gain confidence and experience you're more concerned with expressing yourself and what matters to you.
Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.
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?
You have everything to gain and nothing to lose by trying.
Hope of gain lessens pain.
A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.
The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth.
By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.
The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.
If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.