#gains

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that. ↗

— Geoffrey Holder

#am #everyone #fight #free #free spirit

Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#against #broken #fence #finally #fortunately

How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

#candles #gently #heaven #high #how

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#achieved #achievements #against #back #backdrop

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against. ↗

— John Sculley

#lose #people #risks #take #who

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further. ↗

— Emmett Kelly

#boat #cards #content #further #given

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#battle #concept #decisive #engage #internationalism

Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#blind #dangerous #democratic #development #effect

The teams who play against us don't give us any gifts, but we were too kind. ↗

— Robert Laurent

#any #gifts #give #kind #play

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. ↗

— John Locke

#fence #knowledge #only #thorough #thorough knowledge