Gained Quotes

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What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank. — Charles Lamb
I'm on a diet. It's very strict: all hot dogs. Just sausages, constantly. It's working out - I've gained fifteen pounds! — Beth Ditto
Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so… — Booker T. Washington
The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed… — Tony Benn
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they… — Walter Raleigh
The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort… — W. Somerset Maugham
Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need to be… — Ramana Maharshi
In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it has… — Sheila Kitzinger
In the last year I have gained a lot of experience because I have been playing against top players and realized what things to work… — Maria Sharapova
Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love. — Akkineni Nagarjuna
Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas… — Elliott Abrams
I did not work out while I was pregnant. I felt like I was having symptoms of a heart attack every time I worked out,… — Diane Farr
I feel like the experience I gained at university has really helped to inform me as far as who I wanted to become as an… — Tom Riley
You always get things that teach you and steps to grow, but there is a confidence that is gained and a deep understanding of what… — Sharon Lawrence
When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes. — Janet Jackson
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal… — Derek Bok
Young Egyptians, gazing through the windows of the Internet, have gained a keener sense than many of their elders of the freedoms and opportunities they… — Mohamed ElBaradei
God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart. — Saint Bernard

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