We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.
The true warmth of our heart is displayed on the evening when there is nothing to gain in exchange for being nice.
I’m just going to keep plugging away until I find success—or an electrical socket that works. This is the secret to gaining worldly power.
Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.
We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years.
When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
Of all my seeking this is all my gain: No agony of any mortal brain Shall wrest the secret of the life of man; The Search has taught me that the Search is vain.
There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.
What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.
Furthermore, and a point I really want to make very strongly, is that this is the first Administration since Herbert Hoover not to create a net gain in jobs in the course of its Administration.
The reason I'm an actor and am trying to make my way in drama is to move people, to affect people, to gain a response - so these people who come up to you in the street are your audience.
Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
The universe conspires to steer one in the direction where one can flourish. Bad or good the experience will be a lesson and a lesson learned is fortune measured by wisdom gained.
Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.
It is not always possible to do away with negative thinking, but with persistence and practice, one can gain mastery over them so that they do not take the upper hand.
No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.
If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000.
Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).
LIFE never really ends... It just changes. You never lose your loved ones, you gain guardian angels.
If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or misleading it may be, to gain traction.
The more we explore, understand, and even come to appreciate our own self-destructive mental attitudes, the more control we gain over our minds.
