Gains Quotes - Page 33

• I learn more with each film, and I gain confidence in my style of working. But at the same time, each one is a new monster.

  Amber Sealey

  Style, Monsters, Film

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Everyone in Senate is a hurdle, but everyone in there has children. Everyone in there has grandchildren. No one wants to see our kids continue to gain weight, have high blood pressure high cholesterol, diabetes, and depression.

  Richard Simmons

  Children, Kids, Blood

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The key to building wealth is to preserve capital and wait patiently for the right opportunity to make the extraordinary gains.

  Victor Sperandeo

  Opportunity, Keys, Waiting

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• That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain,
  And follows but for form,
  Will pack, when it begins to rain,
  And leave thee in a storm.

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Storm, Form

  William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.144, Classic Books Company

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• The fortunate one uses the instrument of deep meditation and probes deep into his heart. Then the waves of love gain the depth of the ocean, and the ocean of love flows and fills the heart and thrills every particle of being. Every wave of life then flows in the fullness of love, in the fullness of divine glory, in the fullness of grace, in bliss and peace.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Ocean, Heart, Wave Of Life

  "Love and God". Book by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1969.

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• Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.

  Aaron Klein

  Voting, Immigration, Reform

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• We gain the ability to rejoice under pressure through a carefully monitored training program directed by the Lord Himself.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Training, Pressure, Lord

  Charles R. Swindoll (2015). “Insights on Romans”, p.118, Tyndale House

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• [Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Thinking, Occupation

  Diary, 8 Mar. 1941.Woolf committed suicide on 28 Mar. 1941.

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• Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites?

  H. L. Mencken

  Two, House, Salary

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• Winners see the gain; losers see the pain.

  Shiv Khera

  Pain, Loser, Winner

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• That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Unexpected, Strange, Form

  Peter J Carroll (1992). “Liber Kaos”, p.100, Weiser Books

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• Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world. Instead it is based on the boundless inner energy they gain from their connection with the world of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Enlightenment

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• Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to resolve all conflicts or to gain all ends. Choices have to be made. Different aspects of the public good should be stressed in different places. To achieve variety in land use patterns, there should also be a variety of relationships between the professions, not an institutionalized decision-making tree. Relationships between the constructive professions should, therefore, be deconstructed.

  Tom Turner

  Animal, Land, Diversity

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• Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Enlightenment, Awareness

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• I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.

  Tahir Shah

  Hands, Upper Hand, Mindset

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and Yugoslavia.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Thinking, Yugoslavia

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• Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Stars, Merit, Popularity

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• Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Atheism, Miserable, Providence

  Charles Bradlaugh (1889). “Humanity's Gain from Unbelief”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and gain the smallest coin the country knows for recompense.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Country, Believe, Atheism

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• Well, your whole life is like a checkerboard and there's a sense that you get, especially looking back on it, that you begin to realize and gain awareness that there's something else moving all of these pieces around in your life, and that was really true for me right from the very beginning.

  Wayne Dyer

  Moving, Life Is Like, Pieces

  "I Can See Clearly Now". Interview with Reid Tracy, www.aquarianonline.com. March 28, 2014.

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• The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Rose, Germany

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• A lot of people out there working hard and finally building up to getting a pretty good income. Higher tax rates on them, you know, the income rates going up, the dividend rates are going up, the capital gains rates all going up before health care kicks in.

  Fred Thompson

  Building Up, People, Income

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Kung fu was made so the monks could train their bodies and move their bodies with strength, so they could be physical enough to gain mental enlightenment. Before that, they kept falling asleep when [masters] were trying to teach them.

  RZA

  Moving, Fall, Enlightenment

  Source: www.complex.com

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• The way the United States intelligence community operates is it doesn't limit itself to the protection of the homeland. It doesn't limit itself to countering terrorist threats, countering nuclear proliferation. It's also used for economic espionage, for political spying to gain some knowledge of what other countries are doing.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Community, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Knowledge, Reality

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.132, Graphic Arts Books

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