Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Atterbury

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

I'm just not sure it gains us anything,

Kelvin Sampson

As he's gotten healthy, he's gotten better and better. He's got a great feel for the game. He can do a lot more things than he's doing right now. As he gets older, gains maturity in this program, he's going to be a really good player in this league.

Right now the market is digesting some very good gains it's had over the last year,

Puffy Gains Real-Life Foothold on 'anime' -crazy U.S. Market

The Nasdaq gains gave a gentle nudge higher to a market that was ready for a rebound after last week's losing spell.

The most impressive thing to me about him now is how many yards he gains after contact. He doesn't give you a big target to hit, and he's exceptionally strong.

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

It's all market share gains for Dell. You will not see Dell hint at industry growth.

You need only a 5-10 percent loss of weight to get major gains in life expectancy.

Uhuru Kenyatta

This is a setback not only to the media, but to the gains made by ordinary Kenyans. This is draconian, it is as if we have returned to the Middle Ages.

This is a technical adjustment; it's too soon to talk of optimism. Some stocks showed healthy gains but they were the ones that lost out most.

Myles Munroe

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

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

George Herbert

To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.

Francis Quarles

False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight.

I am worried about the potential for a trailing down process that gains some momentum.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Crichton

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

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.

Milan Kundera

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

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.