#gaining

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#bargaining #doing #giving #iran #juvenile

Our standard rate. A doubloon a day." It was generous. More than generous--some families would put him up for a week for a single coin. "Half a doubloon a day," she said. "No, you see, the idea behind bargaining is that you ask for a larger amount. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#declan #ilona-andrews #on-the-edge #rose #family

I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#bible #christians #enough #even #gaining

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by. ↗

— Shania Twain

#come #difficult #gaining #quality #struggle

I'm gaining weight the right way: I'm drinking beer. ↗

— Johnny Damon

#drinking #gaining #i #right #right way

We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education. ↗

— Charles Vest

#better #cost #education #efficiencies #elements

And some of those people that voted Republican are now going to say, what a mistake I made because I didn't know they were going to take my job away. I didn't know they were going to take collective bargaining away. ↗

— James P. Hoffa

#bargaining #because #collective #collective bargaining #going

As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new. ↗

— Dan Rather

#access #bargaining #been #campaigns #candidates

I definitely wouldn't mind gaining a few more pounds at all. ↗

— Nicole Richie

#few #gaining #i #mind #more

We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path. ↗

— Rafik Hariri

#anybody #country #democratic #difference #differences