Top 30 Addition By Subtraction Quotes
#1. It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.
Michael Pollan
#2. Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.
Donald Rumsfeld
#3. Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?
Julian Barnes
#4. Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
J.C. Ryle
#5. Dharma companions filling mountains, a sangha forms of itself: chanting, sitting ch'an stillness. Looking out from distant city walls, people see only white clouds.
David Hinton
#6. Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak.
John Battelle
#7. One of the greatest testimonials to God's love is His provision of His Word.
Max Anders
#8. Cheer up, my dear," said Rose, leaning affectionately on her husband's arm; "it is altogether addition and not subtraction; you have not lost a daughter but gained a son.
Martha Finley
#9. As pastor and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote, "Nothing is so cruel as the tenderness that consigns another to his sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe rebuke that calls a brother back from the path of sin."[2] Those
Ken Sande
#10. When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
#11. Because all of us are made not only of what we have but what we lost. And loss is not a subtraction. As an experience, it is an addition.
Augusten Burroughs
#12. Life is addition! Death is subtraction. You add to your life by imagining whatsoever things are true, lovely, noble, and Godlike. Imagine and feel yourself successful, and you must become successful. You are never a slave to circumstances, environment, or conditions.
Joseph Murphy
#13. The world was full of awful people who did terrible and ugly things. Most of them were only awful because of the scars on their hearts.
Susie Finkbeiner
#14. Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.
Julian Barnes
#15. To have sweet sleep we must have sweet lives, sweet tempers, sweet meditations, and sweet love.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#16. It's filled with magic that's how I know if something's real.
Nikki Rowe
#18. Bad memories were hard enough, but it was torture to be haunted by the good.
Shelley Noble
#19. The process of change is made up of subtraction and addition. Taking something off and then puttin something on.
Creflo A. Dollar
#20. So knowledge grows by subtraction much more than by addition - given that what we know today might turn out to be wrong but what we know to be wrong cannot turn out to be right, at least not easily.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#21. in this job you really need to know only four things: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - and most of the time you can get by without division!" I
Emanuel Derman
#22. The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.
Charles Dickens
#23. Every place has unsolved crimes because people don't want to know.
Rita Mae Brown
#24. If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The game would become merely a matter of addition and subtraction. It would make of us a race of bookkeepers with plodding minds. It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#25. She was never going to get used to how much the Faeries seem to stare at her, as if dissecting her and examining the little pieces inside her like a science project.~Ever Fire: A Dark Faerie Tale #2
Alexia Purdy
#26. Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#27. Dear Lord, help me to be courageous enough to speak honestly to You and to myself about areas where I'm giving in to compromise. Show me how to rely on Your strength for more self-discipline in my life - not for my glory, but for Yours. In Jesus' name. Amen.
Lysa TerKeurst
#28. The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
Meister Eckhart
#29. Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.
George Eliot
#30. There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
Bess Streeter Aldrich