Gained Quotes

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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost… — William Makepeace Thackeray
What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of… — Dick Francis
If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a… — William James
There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious… — Boyd K. Packer
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much… — Mark Twain
We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others. — Lois Lowry
If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost. — Miriam Toews
From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of… — Cornelia Funke
He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into… — Ann Patchett
She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a â€œsuperior positionâ€ that she wouldnâ€™t need if she was confident… — Stephen Chbosky
What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached? — David F. Wells
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or… — W. Somerset Maugham
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained. — Neil Gaiman
Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister,… — Charles Dickens
As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and… — R A Salvatore
The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character… — Lin Yutang
We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave… — Milan Kundera
I shot you, all right," he said, "and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained… — Mitch Albom
How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter,… — Kevin Brockmeier

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