Famous Quotes & Sayings

For 8 of our 10 skiers it was their first State Tournament. We gained valuable experience, Everyone seems to want to improve. We can't wait until next season.

Oscar Wilde

It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime.

Eric Schmidt

It looks like we're holding or gaining share, really, in virtually all markets,

It looks like we are gaining share in virtually all markets.

Paul Tudor Jones

You can achieve great economic gains by solving social problems.

Paulo Coelho

Each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life.

Joe Biden

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

Peter Senge

In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually.

John Lydon

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

Paul Theroux

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

Mark McGwire

The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

Michael Crichton

You can answer your own question. You already know the answer, if you can just gain access to it.

Naguib Mahfouz

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

Publilius Syrus

There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

Margaret Bourke-White

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

For the Nikkei to go up further, gains need to become more broad-based.

About 18 to 20 percent of the newspapers that reported had gains and most of those were smaller-market newspapers.

Seamus Heaney

I shall gain glory or die.

John Rocker

Like me or don't like me, I'm not going to adjust my behavior, just to gain a few more positive fans.

Plautus

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

Plautus

To make any gain some outlay is necessary.

Philip Roth

The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?

Theodore Parker

Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.

Theodore Roosevelt

Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws.

I tend not to put swimmers in three relays as we usually have a lot of flexibility being able to move the girls around. However, there were a lot of points to be gained in relays so Nicole really helped the team in sacrificing an individual event.

Clearly, they have to make gains in 2006, or it's possible there will be a contest.

Peter Jensen

I'm gaining it back. I've lost a lot of regular strength, normal muscle use, and so even walking up hill takes its toll if I'm not used to it as much. But I'm getting better everyday.

I'm just not sure it gains us anything,

If North Korea is looking gain the support of the U.S., this is not the way to do it.

Suzanne Somers

I had never gained any weight in my life before that, and I was really trying to find a way to not have to spend a lifetime dieting.