Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'd need to get bigger. I'd like to be around 185, but I have to gain the right kind of weight.

Jamais Cascio

As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction. Not just new interfaces - tapping and shaking and whatnot - but a shift in presence.

Isaac Asimov

Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women's breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?

Ellen Barkin

Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.

Hopefully I am gaining knowledge of lottery essentials.

Milan Kundera

Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.

The January gain in construction spending was surprisingly weak given the recent strength in housing starts and unseasonably warm weather.

David Stremme

The main thing is gain respect from these guys and not doing anything stupid.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

Hesiod

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.

Oriana Fallaci

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

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.

Tommy Amaker

The end of the first half was when they gained momentum.

Roger Smith

The first two goals were key. We were able to gain the momentum and take it from them.

Seamus Heaney

I shall gain glory or die.

John Dewey

Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.

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.

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.

Maimonides

Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.

Mahatma Gandhi

If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains

Paul Theroux

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

John Christopher

There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

I'm going to play aggressively. I've got nothing to lose and everything to gain in this position,

Billy Donovan

I'm going to gain pleasure if that happens Monday night.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

Technology stocks weren't able to hold their gains and the market pulled back.

Technology shares here got a lift from strong gains in the Nasdaq index as many investors here regard this sector as having lagged last year.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

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

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.