The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.
A 1940 Gallup poll showed 83 percent of the public was against intervention. A good pretext was needed to gain support from an intransigent public.
Maybe that's because there are so few women lobbyists; if they're there, it's for something they strongly believe in, not just for financial gain.
I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying.
My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.
Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.
Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step.
Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.
Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.
As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction. Not just new interfaces - tapping and shaking and whatnot - but a shift in presence.
Maybe a man in a million could unite the Hallows, Harry. I was fit only to possess the meanest of them, the least extraordinary. I was fit to own the Elder Wand, and not to boast of it, and not to kill with it. I was permitted to tame and to use it, because I took it, not for gain, but to save others from it.
It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.
A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.
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.
Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.
Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.
You cant gain something, without giving something in return
I think if you had a capital-gains system where the long, patient capital would actually be rewarded, nanosecond capital turning would not be.
What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy, because they have made all the gains in the economy.
Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.
The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of recreation, but that they should know God and serve Him with earnestness and devotion.
Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisfy, no gains have meaning unless accomplished in a state of wakefulness.
Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.
If I want to gain weight, I can gain weight. If I want to lose weight, I will lose weight. If I want to be fit, I'll be fit.
Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.
