“I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.” IfsFirstsBigsHappensWishAchievementGainsAthleteOptimisticGrantsPalestinianAlmightyOlympicsQualifying Author:Nader al-Masri
“Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.” DoeHas BeensWholeHappensWould BeLosesLossEconomyGroupsPossibilityParticularHigherGainsAcceptableFixingTransactionsGains And Losses Author:Thomas Sowell
“The worst crime of all would be that a mistake happens and no one talks about it or learns from it. So, as unsettling as it is to think about, these mistakes, complications and unexpected outcomes get discussed openly, and everyone hopefully gains something from it.” ThinkingHappensWould BeMistakeWorstCrimeGainsHopefullyOutcomesUnexpectedComplicationMistakes Happen Author:Sanjay Gupta
“Street politics is what happens in our everyday life, living in the bando. It's the environment around us and what we doing in the streets. We [Migos] talking about how many snakes there are in the grass and talking about how people can hurt you, and talking about how that can help you gain knowledge.” PeopleHelpingHappensHurtTalkingEnvironmentStreetsGainsEverydayGrassEveryday LifeSnakesLife Living Author:Quavo
“I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.” PeopleThinkingTryingYearsWellsHappensAgeFallAcceptingNiceGainsTradeAgingOld AgeFalling ApartMellow Author:Woody Allen
“It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a tangle, and seek freedom in retirement, as Thoreau sought at Walden Pond. They do not, however, in this manner escape from the social institutions of their time, nor do they really mean to do so; what they gain, if they are successful, is a saner relation to them.” IfsFeelsMeanPersonsHappensCertainSocialSuccessfulGainsRelationInstitutionsComplexesActiveComplexityRetirementReally MeanPondsInsistenceSocial InstitutionsWalden Pond Book:Human Nature and the Social Order Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.” IfsHappensActionGainsTerrorismReverseGlobalizationIncumbents Author:Alan Greenspan