Quotes About Gain

But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and his cool and his distance, and he felt scared and vulnerable, but he got to be with Rachel; and Fiona had lost a big chunk of Marcus, and she got to stay away from the casualty ward; and Marcus had lost himself, and got to walk home from school with his shoes on.

Merea bertiga harus kehilangan sesuatu dalam rangka untuk memperoleh hal lainnya.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different.

any tinhorn with a loud mouth and a brassy front could gain power by appeal to mob psychology.

Our lives are scattered throughout with periods of unbelonging; in childhood, of course, and adolescence; but in adulthood too, when sudden loss (or gain) forces us to reassess things we believe immutable.

It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem.

There's no great loss without some small gain.

What would answers offer and--more importantly--what might they take away?

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. One went up and the other went down. One gained, the other lost. One escaped, the other was trapped, forever.

No matter what the practice or teaching, ego loves to wait in ambush to appropriate spirituality for its own survival and gain.

Every age has its peculiar folly—some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation.

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening.

You fear the world too much," she answered gently. "All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?

But if you were free today, tomorrow, yesterday, can even I believe that you would choose a dowerless girl, you who, in your very confidence with her, weigh everything by Gain: or, choosing her, if for a moment you were false enough to your one guiding principle to do so, do I not know that your repentance and regret would surely follow?

Jim Elliot summarized it well: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Shiver by shiver, we gain insight [...].

Al final, los intereses estratégicos de la cohesión social y de la ganancia son convergentes. Ambas requieren una economía de mercado pujante y un Estado fuerte.

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

What did it proft a man to gain the whole world if he lost his soul?

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.