Quotes About Gain

Era caduto dal suo modesto trono di re pastore fin giù, negli abissi melmosi di Siddim; ma gli erano rimaste una calma dignitosa che non aveva mai conosciuto prima e quell'indifferenza al destino che, benché spesso faccia dell'uomo un violento, diversamente è la base della sua sublimazione. Insomma, la sua caduta in basso era diventata un'ascesa, la perdita un guadagno.

But what can any society today hope to gain by having newborn babies in that society enter the world as heirs to prepackaged grievances against other babies born into that same society on the same day?

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.

The striking thing with Thoreau is not the actual content of the argument. After all, sages in earliest Antiquity had already proclaimed their contempt for possessions ... What impresses is the form of the argument. For Thoreau's obsession with calculation runs deep ... He says: keep calculating, keep weighing. What exactly do I gain, or lose?

Le désir, dit-il, c'est avoir quelque chose à gagner, et l'amour quelque chose à perdre.

One lesson of history is that every gain has its potential loss. The highest human achievements carry the danger of pride, and pride can lead blindly to disaster, just as failure can fortify the determination and so lead slowly towards triumph.

In Joy, to lose one's life is to gain it, and Joy never loses an opportunity to be lost in the other.

Wash me wholly in the waters Of the sacred springs of pain; Suffering be all my worship, Suffering be all my gain.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

It's them that take advantage that get advantage i' this world.

I'm a man of business. If it adds up to a plus mark, I'm for it.

Bringing the Baltics into the alliance is not a zero sum game in which NATO's gain is Russia's loss, NATO's strength Russia's weakness.

I love to experiment with my choice of roles. There's nothing to lose or gain when you do that. The returns are either zero or hundred per cent, but in either case you have the satisfaction of knowing that you tried something new.

It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world.

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.

When pain ends, gain ends too.

It's a bad bargain where nobody gains.

Iran is not an enemy of ISIS; they have a lot to gain from the turmoil that ISIS creates.

FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain.

Of all the things he wants," Liberty said, "money's the easiest to get.

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.

The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.