Gain Quotes

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.
Lester B. Pearson

Nothing, Win, Lose

Because I'm 5'4' and athletically built, if I gain five pounds it looks like a lot.
Sophia Bush

Looks, Five, Built

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Jean Rostand

Often, Greatness, Order

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.
Haruki Murakami

After, Getting, Everyday

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Danny Thomas

Life, Success, Yourself

I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.
Liz Phair

Music, Time, Same

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
Chilon

Time, Pain, Moment

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
Kenny Rogers

Wisdom, Lose, Off

I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.
Kevin Mitnick

Before, Difference, Paid

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.
Kevin Mitnick

Person, Social, Key

The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
C. J. Cherryh

Family, Home, Society

The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.
Shimon Peres

Peace, Others, Economy

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Arthur Helps

Confidence, Self, Once

You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence.
Joan Didion

Confidence, Writing, Moment

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
Alan Greenspan

Success, Through, Honest

So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.
Imran Khan

Win, Vote, Election

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob Bronowski

Nature, Control, Her

People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.
Richard Simmons

Year, Body, Miracles

I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!
Courtney Love

I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.
Shailene Woodley

Try, Skinny, Weight

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!
Roger Moore

Education, Work, School

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
Angela Carter

Age, Order, Miracle

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.
Johannes Tauler

Love, Soul, Cannot

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.
Eric Liu

Game, America, Loss

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
Anne Rice

Success, Real, Together

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.
Julian Casablancas

Religion, Power, Problem

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

Time, Political, Vote

It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it.
Robert Downey, Jr.

Smart, Why, Idea

But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.
Julius Erving

Live, Moving, Try

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

Down, Lose, Few

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