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“You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.”
“You gain control over any situation with a positive outlook.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.”
“You gain inner peace when you become comfortable with the reality of death.”
“You gain more honour when you solve your problems by yourself!”
“You gain much more from your enemies than friends.”
“You gain nothing by becoming cowards.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“You gain nothing by criticizing your people, but you lose your people by constantly criticizing them.”
“You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.”
“You gain power by pretending to be weak.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“You gain power through practicing meditation and concentration. You gain power by doing anything you like that makes you feel good. You gain power by being happy.”
“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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Source: You Learn By Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“You gain strength for every situation, which you conquer.”
“You gain strength with every difficulty, which you boldly overcome.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.”
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Source: You learn by living
“You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes.”
“You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.”
“You gather a certain number of people around you but, you know, they look - they look - they didn't look to me like people who were, you know, carefully studying political science and were all upset about the ideology of the election.”
“You gave birth to this century, To an age I call my life, And you coloured my hidden emotions, So I could express them while I am alive…”
Source: Narcissistic Romanticism
“You gave birth to your own death.”
Source: Electra
“You gave everything, Rhys. You went through that hell for us, for fifty years.' He'd never addressed it- not fully. 'You think I don't know what happened? I know, Rhys. We all do. And we know you did it to save us, spare us.' He shook his head, sunlight glinting off that dark, winged helmet. 'Let us return the favour. Let us repay the debt.'
'There is no debt to repay.' Rhys's voice broke. The sound of it cracked my heart.
Cassian's own voice broke as he said, 'I never got to repay your mother- for her kindness. Let me do it this way. Let me buy you time.'
'I can't.'
I wasn't sure if in the entire history of Illyria, there had ever been such a discussion.'
'You can,' Cassian said gently. 'You can, Rhys.' He gave a lazy grin. 'Save some of the glory for the rest of us.'
'Cassian-”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“You gave me a marvellous sensation when you played,” I told her, “it was beautiful, intoxicating, I shall never forget it. You have a rare – no – a very dangerous talent.” She was silent, and then spoke in her restrained, breathless little voice. “I played for you,” she said, “I wanted to see what it was like to play to a man.” Her words bewildered me, they seemed utterly inexplicable. She was not lying, her eyes looked straight into mine, and she was smiling.”
Source: The Doll
“You gave me a significant look, but significant of what?”
“You gave me a soul touch. A touch beyond physical. The most powerful of touch. I thought it was about you but I was wrong it was about me. In me. It took me a lifetime to realize it was me, not you. Thank you for showing me my soul.”
“You gave me back the paradise That I thought I lost for good You helped me find the reasons why It took me by surprise that you understood You knew all along What I never wanted to say Until I learned to love myself I was never ever lovin' anybody else.”
“You gave me books and articles. You keep telling me not to forget I'm Arab. But it's not just the white people reminding me who I am, Baba. Arabs remind me I'm not one of them too. This world may never let me forget I am Arab, but it will also keep me from belonging as one of them.”
Source: Not the Girls You're Looking For
“You gave me Christopher Robin, and then You breathed new life in Pooh. Whatever of each has left my pen Goes homing back to you. My book is ready, and comes to greet The mother it longs to see -- It would be my present to you, my sweet, If it weren't your gift to me.”
Source: The House at Pooh Corner
“You gave me context, not denial.”
“You gave me every reason to walk away, but it’s my heart, my stubborn heart, that won’t let me.”
Source: YOU ARE ABOUT TO BLOOM: A Guide To Self-Healing
“You gave me faith to find my dreams, you'll never know just what that means.”
“You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain.”
“You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer.”
Source: My Own Wasteland
“You gave me love and I gave it to your sister.”
“You gave me my first love story, Peter. Please just don't let it be over yet.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“You gave me reason to believe that we were always meant to be, but now I see you were wrong, you can't keep running back to me with all them baby baby please, No More.”
“You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?”
“You gave me the moon, my darling!" she had said happily. "Oh, what a lovely and impossible gift." She had always told me to chase the moon. To surround myself with people who would lasso it down in a heartbeat.”
Source: Diary of a Street Diva
“You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.”
Source: The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis
“You gave my soul the key to a new earth - Soul Coming”
Source: Coming Home
“You gave the light to my soul
You helped me to be whole
Keep me near
My dear”
Source: The Curved Rainbow
“You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Easyread Comfort Edition
“You gave up Elysium,” Frank said in amazement, “so your mother wouldn't suffer?”
Source: The Son of Neptune
“You gave us a lawyer; we gave you back a Mahatma.”
Source: Gandhi Before India
“You gave us power in our words, so I think before I speak, and that way when I speak, they know I'm here to teach.”
“You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.”
Source: Underworld: Picador Classic
“You gaze at me teasingly through the window;
a virgin face—and below—a woman's thighs.”