Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
Wake up, Christians of Tennessee. Islam is at your gate. Do not make the mistake which Europe made. Do not allow Islam to gain a foothold here.
The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education – and less on alcohol and cigarettes.
Whenever I am in Delhi, I gain around 2 kg weight as I eat out almost every day. I am a vegetarian and there are so many options available here that I can barely resist.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.
For ‘Rakht Charitra,’ I had to gain and lose weight. I simultaneously shot the film in three languages – Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
You lose something in not being rooted, but you gain something by seeing the world differently. It’s both a loss and a gift.
The American people deserve to know that their elected leaders play by the exact same rules that they play by and that their lawmakers’ only interest is what’s best for the country, not their own financial gain.
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.
When I gain a pound it’s in the headlines.
It’s nice to be able to have a conversation with someone and know there’s nothing they can gain from me, nothing I’m looking for from them.
Iran is not an enemy of ISIS; they have a lot to gain from the turmoil that ISIS creates.
The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
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.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’
In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what’s behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.
As ISIS begins to gain momentum beyond where they already are, it really does create – but you see the surge of refugees and immigrants into Europe, and this is a major problem for the Europeans… But the United States is going to have to take the lead.
I knew how to sell. I felt confident I could run a business. I was willing to outwork anyone. I wasn’t afraid to live like a student on next to nothing. So that meant I had absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain.
If defectors say they had high-level connections in Pyongyang or came from an esteemed institution in the North, they can gain better employment in the South, where life can be very difficult for North Koreans.
Renditions before and since 9/11 share some basic features. They have been conducted lawfully, responsibly and with a clear and single purpose: Get terrorists off the street and gain intelligence on those still at large. Our detention and interrogation programs flow from the same inescapable logic.
I just decided that I wasn’t going to gain anything by going to school, since we couldn’t afford it anyway, so I left school very early and went to work and progressively did things.
The Muslims wanted to reign over the whole of Mostar, then gain ground to the sea and finally create an Islamic state. That is what our Croatians defend themselves against.
I think stopping any Muslim artist from performing at Ramlila is a cheap gimmick to gain publicity.
Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.
Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.
It’s possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.
I like to keep my posts relatable and don’t just post fake things for publicity. I don’t go putting out posts just to gain more followers.
I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They’re indulgences, essentially. I think, ‘What would I like to spend five years really thinking about? What could I gain from thinking about for five years?’
The time has long since come for truth, transparency, and talks in every sector of society, including media, advertisement and entertainment. We can challenge each other, gain understanding, and create a more just, humane, and peaceful world.
In financial affairs and dealings with the state, those in the precariat are disadvantaged since they are usually less well-informed and have to do much more to satisfy demands made on them if they want to gain meagre state benefits.
Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking.
I did nothing but international liberation politics for ten years, and usually it was like, you gain an inch, you lose a half an inch. It’s slow going, man.
I didn’t think I was fat. I just thought I didn’t need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number.
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Why not have a motivation beyond me to get to a healthy weight? Every actor does that. We’re chameleons. We change; we grow as an actor. You lose weight, you gain weight, you change your hair or whatever.
I come from a place where to go to prison is like a rite of passage. It’s something that you gain respect for. I used to watch people come out of prison, older cousins and the like, back in the day, and be in awe of them.
Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.
It’s been hard to gain acceptance in England without the clown makeup because I wore the costume as part of my act for so long.
As I have said all along, for any trade promotion authority bill to gain my support, it must require strong, enforceable environmental and labor protections.
Everyone always helped me out growing up, and everyone now supports me Sunday. So whenever there’s a chance to give back, to the community, to the less fortunate kids so they have the opportunity to gain the most potential they can in their life to be success, it’s always good to do.
The world’s industry must gain incentives to stop polluting and to invest in clean technologies.
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Many people, not just Asians, are more concerned with hustling and getting to meetings with contacts to gain success.
With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I’m fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts with great forward momentum. Then there seems to be a period where it slows down a bit, and other things intervene. Then I gain momentum.
Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.
Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter’s deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.
From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don’t realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.
When you’re growing up in Jamaica and you don’t have much, and then you gain more and more… you can now share the more that you have with the people that have less because you know what less is like.
No matter where you are, the root of you is designed from a young age. So if my confidence was taken as a child, you can gain back a lot of the confidence, but that root of the cavity will still be there.
