Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.
But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.
Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!
If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.
For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.
A villain to me is someone who actively seeks to hurt someone or does things for his own gain.
Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
I love food so much, all I have to do is look at it and I gain 5 pounds.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.
I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.
So much of the access that I was able to gain with the Autodefensas was over months, not days.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
There's only one way to gain mountain sense, and that's to be in the mountains a lot. Unfortunately, when you're a young climber, you have none. You're out there, and your risk level is high.
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.
Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.
When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape.
You must lose everything in order to gain anything.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.
The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
As an actor, you gain weight, you lose weight, you change your hair color, and you make changes physically and emotionally to be able to understand the character.
Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
My advice is to give up stevia, aspartame, sucralose, sugar alcohols like xylitol and malitol, and all of the other heavily-used and marketed sweeteners unless you want to slow down your metabolism, gain weight, and become an addict.
Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
