(991 quotes found)
“I'm the kind of person to wait until I've gained ten pounds to start exercising.”
Yasmine Bleeth
“What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy? Where is your decency? Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle?”
Golda Meir
“So, I gained a little...weight, ... Big deal. Clean and sober.”
Courtney Love
“The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth”
Walter Raleigh Sr.
“As we started to entertain more, and gain more status, the kitchen grew into not just a room that would be operational and functional, but one, like the bath, in which we luxuriate.”
Billy Rose
“There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated.”
Dave Eggers
“Let go to get one, lose some to win some.”
Dedrick D. L. Pitter
“All this I do, not for personal gain, but only because I have come for your sake.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“There are three classes of men - lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, lovers of gain”
Plato
“We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.”
Mark Twain
