Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.
Don Henley

But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.
Merton Miller

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.
Jeff Miller

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.
Daniel Greenberg

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
Barbara Amiel

By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.
Edwin Louis Cole

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. Wilson

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
Hesiod

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
Erwin Rommel

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.
John Nelson Darby

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.
Pam Grier

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

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
Vaclav Havel

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
Ted Turner

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
Horatio Nelson