Discardable Quotes

#1. Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.

Annie Dillard

#2. Dickens' plots are his most discardable properties, and often have to be pushed aside to let the strange poetry of his imagination emerge.

John Carey

#3. Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.

Karen Thompson Walker

#4. The only proof of God in the world was color. Everything would have worked the same without it. So why would the world have been made so full of color if there wasn't a God?

Tony D'Souza

#5. We need to recognize and acknowledge angry feelings. It will take humility to do this, but if we will get on our knees and ask Heavenly Father for a feeling of forgiveness, He will help us. ... Only as we rid ourselves of hatred and bitterness can the Lord put comfort into our hearts.

James E. Faust

#6. Celebrate your existence!

William Blake

#7. Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

Sheryl Sandberg

#8. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one.

Carl Jung

#10. Sometimes, the people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern.

Max Lucado

#11. but applying logic to love is like buttering a pig before you slaughter it.

Penny Reid

#12. Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.

Alain Ducasse

#13. Nobody likes my hair blonde!

Marissa Jaret Winokur

#14. We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.

Bill McKibben

#15. The cause of Hawaii and independence is larger and dearer than the life of any man connected with it. Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.

Lili'uokalani

#16. Cricket shakes her head. "I'm never getting married." "Jinxed yourself, hug-a-baloo. Everyone knows once you state something as a fact the universe immediately decides you must be proven wrong." Cricket

Bijou Hunter

#17. If there is horror, it is for those who speak indifferently of the next war. If there is hate, it is for hateful qualities, not nations. If there is love, it is because this alone kept me alive.

Claude Cahun