Gains Quotes - Page 8

The way to gain a friend is to be one

It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.

...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If you understood only one passage in all of Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. It will be this passage God asks you about. Do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. God's Word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.

By releasing control over circumstances, you gain more control over your life.

There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method.

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.

What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy.

We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women.

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

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

I am against the death penalty.

We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence.

I smacked her, cracked her, put her in a full nelson.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Income earned by the sweat of your brow should be taxed at the lowest rates, not the highest. Capital gains should be taxed at a higher rate.

Gain confidence and you banish fear.

Whatever you gain through self promotion you'll have to sustain through self promotion. When our promotion comes from God, He sustains it.

The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.

If you make mistakes that is alright because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from learning, failing and rising again.

If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.