Pastoral Resources

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in, for example, the International Space Station, we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization, NASA.

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.

There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.

I think people are going to have a choice to make in the fall. But I think there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control. There's no doubt about that.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.