Gains Quotes - Page 30

For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost.

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

I didn't want to understand. Bert had been thrilled that the police wanted to put me on retainer. He told me I would gain valuable experience working with the police. All I had gained so far was a wider variety of nightmares.

I always recommend rewiring vintage lighting. It's not a bargain if your house burns down.

Gain or loss, what is worse?

On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

My father [Joe Germanotta] opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist.

When I gain a pound it's in the headlines.

Justification, in terms of the broadening of freedom, for any particular form of institution of property must be argued in terms of whether the losses caused by the restrictions imposed are greater or less than the gains derived from the elimination of costly conflict.

I love food so much, all I have to do is look at it and I gain 5 pounds.

Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.

The need for challenge, the need to burst through the constrictions of tasks and situations already seen and mastered, can affect anyone, even those enjoying the greatest gains from success.

The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.

But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.

A bargain is a bargain.

We got to make sure that we have the incentives for people to rise and not put them in a position of where they go to work and they lose more than what they gain and they're like this system is terrible.

And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.

No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had.

Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.

It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties of conception and also of execution, and what they gain by the mellowing hand of time which should never be forced or anticipated. Thus my pictures when first coming forth have a comparative harshness which at the time acts to my disadvantage.

The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. ... That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial.

Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I, But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round, Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found, - A life-complete in death-complete to die.

The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.