Detracts Quotes

#1. I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts from my singing.

Samantha Fox

#2. If... I focus only on what God commands for us as wives to do, it detracts nothing from God's commands for our men. His Word for them still stands.

April Cassidy

#3. Jesus taught that your highest priority must be your relationship with Him. If anything detracts you from that relationship, that activity is not from God. God will not ask you to do something that hinders your relationship with Christ.

Henry Blackaby

#4. [There is an] immense advantage to be gained by ample space and appropriate surroundings in aiding the formation of a just idea of the beauty and interest of each specimen... Nothing detracts so much from the enjoyment ... from a visit to a museum as the overcrowding of the specimens exhibited.

William Henry Flower

#5. Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close examination is a matter of particular importance to the Negro jockey.

Solomon Northup

#6. The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.

John Calvin

#7. Believers have just as much to fear from legalism as from waywardness. The first detracts from the beauty of the message, while the second mars it content.

Max Anders

#8. The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it's the other things which are the more permanent and real.

Brian Friel

#9. The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Hippocrates

#10. The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn't feel that it detracts from our femininity.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#11. The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.

David Brooks

#12. The more critical reason dominates, the more impoverished life becomes. When reason is overvalued, the individual suffers a loss. Relying more on facts and rationality than on imagination and theory detracts from the quality of a person's intellectual life.

C. G. Jung

#13. All that is obvious detracts completely from all that is not.

Emma Restall Orr

#14. The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

Don Richardson

#15. Often analysis seems to be based on the assumption that future economic output is almost entirely determined by inexorable economic forces independently of government policy so that devoting more resources to one use inevitably detracts from availability for another.

William Vickrey

#16. Berdyaev remarks that "no one ever proposes evil ends: evil is always disguised as good, and detracts from the good."[49] Yet the resort to violence is precisely where evil seeps in. Besides,

Alexandre Christoyannopoulos

#17. People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrating because I think it detracts from some of the art and some of the craft of what we do. I'm at the helm of it, and I think that is what people don't see.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

#18. The beauty that is there is also available for me, too. But I see a deeper beauty that isn't so readily available to others ... I don't see how studying a flower ever detracts from its beauty. It only adds

Richard P. Feynman

#19. New Rule: It's okay for the president to play ball in the house. It's easy to judge and say this scene detracts from the dignity of the White House
until you consider the end zone is between Clinton's semen stain and where Bush OD'd on a pretzel.

Bill Maher

#20. Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both.

Linus Torvalds

#21. I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.

Pete Rozelle

#22. As an actor, and especially as a young woman, there's so much pressure to look good all the time and it really detracts from what our job really is about, which is portraying a different person.

Emmy Rossum

#23. I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public's identification something very positive.

Moshe Safdie

#24. Man's wisdom detracts from the glory of God, who is more honoured by the simplicity of the gospel, than luxuriance of wit.

Stephen Charnock

#25. Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

Elaine Dundy

#26. I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

Dan Bejar

#27. On your feet, Christopher Herondale. We've been looking for you a long time.

Cassandra Clare

#28. New York Times founder Henry Raymond started his newspaper, "with the goal of reforming government, not belittling it.

Harold Holzer

#29. Information on UFOs, including sighting reports, has been and is still being officially withheld.

Gordon Cooper

#30. Professor Henry Higgins: She's an owl, sickened by a few days of *my* sunshine.

George Bernard Shaw

#31. Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.

Malcolm Gladwell

#32. Please sir, eat the nuts that are here for you. - Melamie Masters

Ray Palla

#33. I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.

Samantha Mumba

#34. An accident of birth had signed her death warrant.
He could mark her name off his to-do list.

Linda Howard

#35. Listen. The more men you've had, the more I love you. Do you understand that?

George Orwell