Gained Synonym Quotes & Sayings

On thinking about Hell, I gather
My brother Shelley found it was a place
Much like the city of London. I
Who live in Los Angeles and not in London
Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be
Still more like Los Angeles. — Bertolt Brecht

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what. — Mason Cooley

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too. — Sharon Creech

My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please! — Ernest Bevin

Stanton smiled. "I love you, buddy."
"You don't really have much choice in the matter."
"I know. I just wish I was more like you."
"You do not want to be a short Jew-boy in a sea of WASPy perfection."
"You know who you are and you never back down."
"I come from a people accustomed to adversity. It's in my genes."
"Well, I come from a people accustomed to denial and emotional constipation. — Brad Boney

Humor is just Schadenfreude with a clear conscience — Friedrich Nietzsche

Quite the most Christian thing that has happened in my lifetime is the Welfare State. — Donald Soper, Baron Soper

The freedom that money gives you makes you ... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity. — Paloma Faith

Even if you were to start drinking milk during adolescence in an attempt to bolster peak bone mass, it probably wouldn't reduce your chances of fracture later in life. — Michael Greger

In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. — Walter Scott

I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered. — Ed Case

Forget about style; worry about results. — Bobby Orr

There was still something unfinished around her eyes; she wasn't done yet. She was a story, not an epilogue. And if she chose to narrate her own life one word at a time as she descended the stairs to meet her newest arrival, that wasn't hurting anyone. Narration was a hard habit to break, after all.
Sometimes it was all a body had. — Seanan McGuire

Death is dreadfully personal, terribly important to oneself, and so unimportant to the rest of the world. — Kate Langley Bosher

The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! — Jane Austen