There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate. — Seth Green Copy Share Image
A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the financial markets, however, the connection between a marketable security and the underlying business is not as clear-cut. For investors in… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Those who delight in bad movies and enjoy producing their own unfilmed versions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 may gain a measure… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
In studying ourselves, we find the harmony that is our total existence. We do not make harmony. We do not achieve it… — John Daishin Buksbazen Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the… — Alexander Meiklejohn Copy Share Image
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness.… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful. — Doris Day Copy Share Image
To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering… — Rumi Copy Share Image
With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
