Gain Quotes

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
Jessica Savitch

Good, Balance, Public

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
Democritus

True, Rather, Cause

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
Pamela Anderson

Society, Strong, True

A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.
Simon Mainwaring

Government, Personal, Debt

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
Marilyn vos Savant

Wrong, Between, Personal

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
George Herbert

Best, Sometimes, Lose

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.
Alveda King

May, Racism, Others

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Peace, Happiness, Yourself

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
Plautus

I love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I'm craving, I go for it. I'm never trying to lose weight - or gain it. I'm just being.
Kelly Clarkson

Love, Trying, Lose

Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!
Jane Siberry

Good, Power, Political

I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.
Elayne Boosler

Good, Food, Thankful

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

Lose, Possess, Decline

I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight.
Jennifer Garner

Wish, Cute, Pregnant

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

Time, Hope, Political

Well, it's very easy for me to gain weight, but 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

Food, Young, Easy

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.
William Hague

Outside, Interests, Politician

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
Andre Agassi

Special, Lose, Makes

As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Respect, Character, Playing

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Experience, Knowledge, Older

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
Walter Savage Landor

Great, Men, Lose

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.
Adam Rickitt

Power, Through, Made

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
George Will

Leadership, Pain, Away

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.
Thomas Jane

Life, Change, Lose

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Simple, May, Present

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.
Serj Tankian

Good, Through, Trying

If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.
Venus Williams

Lose, Actually, Weight

I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.
Venus Williams

Lose, Actually, Weight

It's normal to gain weight during pregnancy. It's something that has to happen to your body.
Carnie Wilson

Happen, Body, Normal

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

Equal, Ruin, Base

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