Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

The potential returns for BHP are enormous, even after the gains recently.

The post-auction gains were used as a selling opportunity.

My advice is to give up stevia, aspartame, sucralose, sugar alcohols like xylitol and malitol, and all of the other heavily-used and marketed sweeteners unless you want to slow down your metabolism, gain weight, and become an addict.

Ken Hitchcock

We're starting to gain an identity and confidence. We're starting to build. You can hear it in the banter on the bench.

We did nothing wrong. Damon Archibald did not do anything wrong. Damon did nothing illegal. He never tried to gain anything or get anything other than ascertain a good schedule for us.

Bill Hybels

Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.

We're happy to be in the playoffs and have the opportunity to take it all in and gain the experience.

This rally looks sustainable because the gains are smaller. It is not like you have a 250-point gain in one day, which is hard to keep up.

This quarter's significant increase in revenue and improved results over last quarter reflect that we have gained traction in the marketplace and restored operational rigor.

This program is meant to keep the joints moving and gain some mobility that is lost through arthritis, ... We work from head to toe.

Juvenal

To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

We really have given up a lot in price and gained a lot in yield,

Yesterday I think Softbank gained as investors saw this as part of its new growth strategy. But I think the price of the purchase is very much at a premium.

Richard G. Scott

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

Denis Waitley

It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.

Ayn Rand

As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.

Benjamin Disraeli

He who gains time gains everything.

C. S. Lewis

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

Barry Ritholtz

When Greenspan spoke the market rallied, and when he stopped it gave the gains back.

By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

Alexander Berkman

Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

Albert Einstein

Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord

Anna Louise Strong

I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.

William Stafford

We are led one thing at a time to that pure gain -- all that we lose.

Sharon Stone

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

There are not a lot of job gains forecast.

Kenny Rogers

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

Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.

Jeb Bush

This storm can gain power very, very quickly ... this is serious business,

Paul Levine

Today was pretty skewed because of the gains in Merck and Pfizer at the end. Without that, the Dow would have been down today.

Paul Levine

Today was pretty skewed because of the gains in Merck and Pfizer at the end, ... Without that, the Dow would have been down today.

Natalie Morales

One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.