Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Whoever with fear of God corrects and directs a sinner gains virtue for himself, that of opposition to sin. But whoever insults… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a… — William James Copy Share Image
Marriage is for committed lovers, not hostages. Marriage is a sacred relationship created for two people who complete each other spiritually. While… — Rob Jackson Copy Share Image
He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he… — Plato Copy Share Image
And your brain doesn't naturally know how to think the way Zeckhauser knows how to play bridge. "for example," people do not… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If you don't pray often, you won't gain a love for praying. Prayer is work, and therefore it is not very appealing… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
To gain credibility, you must consistently demonstrate three things: Initiative: You have to get up to go up. Sacrifice: You have to… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I will promote savings and investment by maintaining the 15% rate on capital gains and dividends. I will eliminate the tax entirely… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
From a child's play, we can gain understanding of how he sees and construes the world--what he would like it to be,… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
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… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure,… — Alice James Copy Share Image
We've created a community and these images [from Vogue] will live on with exhibitions, postcards, projections. We help them gain more exposure.… — Franca Sozzani Copy Share Image
we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
I have never had, nor will I ever have, any [political] ambitions. The only thing on which I have always set my… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control… — Sergei Ivanov Copy Share Image
Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Nothing would turn the nation back to God so surely and so quickly as a Church that prayed and prevailed. The world… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
While no one wishes to incur losses, you couldn't prove it from an examination of the behavior of most investors and speculators.… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Everything's got a purpose, really - you just have to look for it. Cats are good at keeping old dogs alive. Loss… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make,… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I saw that the kingdom must be interior before it can be exterior, that it is a kingdom of ideas, and not… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always;… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Why will we struggle to attain, and strive, When all we gain is but an empty dream?-- Better, unto my thinking, doth… — Madison Cawein Copy Share Image
Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image