Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters. — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I learn from my mistakes. It's a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there's no gain. — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I never had credit card debt... I was very much about trying to gain my freedom, so it was about saving. — Jenny Mollen Copy Share Image
Everyone has stress. A good run may not erase it, but it can reduce the effect and allow runners to gain control. — Jeff Galloway Copy Share Image
Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in… — Graham Sutherland Copy Share Image
Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our… — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
That is not quite enough to make one happy, if one spends eight hours a day in something which in itself has… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The place that you gain the most power is within your own mind. Stopping thought generates power. That is why people meditate.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For members of the political class, the crucial question is always: how can we push out the frontier, how can we augment… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
I dance with people I despise; amuse myself with men whose only talent lies in their feet, gain the disapprobation of people… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
The motive for purifying yourself - that you feel spiritually impure - will prevent any genuine gain until you learn to love… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Don’t pursue business just for your own gain. Only answer the calls for help. — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be perceived a certain way, to gain the things that they have decided are the things that they want… — Willi Smith Copy Share Image
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually. — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight. — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life. — Chilon of Sparta Copy Share Image
My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
