Gains Quotes - Page 23

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.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

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.

I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.

As many as one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or abused in some other way - most often by someone she knows, including by her husband or another male family member.

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.

Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.

Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.

Because I'm 5'4' and athletically built, if I gain five pounds it looks like a lot.

When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.

I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.

I shall gain glory or die.

I think everyone's against abortion.

No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.

And gain is gain, however small.

When pain ends, gain ends too.

It is by seeing, looking and choosing to not turn away that we gain God's heart, that we grow in faith.

To make any gain some outlay is necessary.

The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?

When you help scholars, you gain a share in their learning.

Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure.

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

There is no gain without struggle.

Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.