Best 748 quotes in «gains quotes» category

Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

Since 2008 you've had the largest bond market rally in history, as the Federal Reserve flooded the economy with quantitative easing to drive down interest rates. Driving down the interest rates creates a boom in the stock market, and also the real estate market. The resulting capital gains not treated as income.

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.

Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.

Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.

Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a Darwinian individual of the appropriate scale. If a change in a local population does not gain such protection, it becomes-to borrow Dawkins's metaphor at a macroevolutionary scale-a transient duststorm in the desert of time, a passing cloud without borders, integrity, or even the capacity to act as a unit of selection, in the panorama of life's phylogeny.

Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.

Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.

States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation.

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.

Storm is prerequisite to mental gain

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

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

That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.

That is not quite enough to make one happy, if one spends eight hours a day in something which in itself has no meaning and interest, except that one gains money from it.

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

The attitude you bring to your giving will reflect the benefits you gain.

The advantages we gain from EU membership clearly and categorically outweigh any disadvantages that come with it.

The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by empirical observation.

The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.

The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.

The biggest gains come from associating with people u DONT agree with!

The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero.

The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.

The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it.

The Clintons have sold everything about America and its policy and its future for their own personal gain in terms of amassing incredible wealth.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

The continuing shortages of housing inventory are driving the price gains. There is no evidence of bubbles popping.

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.