Quotes About Gain

So much of the access that I was able to gain with the Autodefensas was over months, not days.

I personally feel a responsibility to demonstrate to that we girls have the power to not only gain equality for women but all sectors of society.

Campaigning for Congress is an issue of conviction, and there is no element of any personal gain in it.

It is the universe where all rock players live- we all use distortion, overdrive, gain and saturation. I call it 'fuzz.'

Most of our lives are dictated by money and when we lose or gain some, we change so much as an individual.

If I look back at my failed marriage, I feel the loss of a husband, but I prefer considering the gain of two beautiful kids.

From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.

Foreign policy is painstakingly difficult, and if there is to be anything gained from the experience in Libya, it is how not to conduct world affairs.

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

El que tiene, obtiene.

In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity. The distance between you and them can one day become so great that your joyous cry over some new gain could be answered by an universal shriek of horror.

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.

History will probably, because of the almost total abomination of the entertainment industry and the media, picture me as some kind of witch who was out for her own personal gain and crusading to do away with the homosexuals.

Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. Too-lateness is potentially every moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it's no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it's time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now.

A rock thrown in the air. It loses nothing by coming down, gained nothing by going up.

Better is what benefits

Pero nada podría darme aquella libertad, nada. Las libertades que me daba ella no significaban nada para mí; su poder no era, en definitiva, sino un grado más del que todos poseíamos. Y lo que poseen todos nunca ha facilitado la contienda; más bien la ha convertido en una agonía, por más que se gane o se pierda.

Desire for gain versus avoidance of loss.

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.

I do not really know if it is a gain to exchange the crown of martrydom with two or three years of life in freedom. But I leave the good Lord to decide.

As it turned out, Welcome was where I lost everything, and gained everything. Welcome was the place where my life was guided from one track to another, ending me to places I'd never thought of going.

I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.

it is selfish," he says, "because you get more out of it than what you are putting into

What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul?