Discards Quotes

#1. If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.

John Ortberg

#2. [T]his is how it will remain until ... literary criticism discards its sociological, religious, philosophical and other textbooks, which only help mediocrity to admire itself. Only then will you be free to say what you please. [F]or God's sake stop that irrelevant chitchat.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. He discards a quilt for fear of bugs.

Idries Shah

#4. Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

Joseph Addison

#5. Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Benjamin Disraeli

#6. I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe, especially immigrant kids. We dismiss them without getting into details of who they are.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#7. The usage the creator spirit gives its vessels is rough, it wears them out, discards them, gets a new model.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. She prunes the idea away like a faded rose blossom, and quickly discards it as if the thorns might puncture her resolve.

Beth Neff

#9. The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.

John Buchanan Robinson

#10. The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

Georges Rouault

#11. The psychopath discards his ex-lovers with a degree of vitriol and hatred that astonishes his victims and exceeds any boundaries of normality.

Claudia Moscovici

#12. When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.

Ezra Pound

#14. The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.

John Calvin

#15. Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

Charles Caleb Colton

#16. The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.

Chidananda Saraswati

#17. Retirement is a stage where an employer discards an employee that he cannot exploit further.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#18. Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

Charles Spurgeon

#19. The Bible tells us, "blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven", which means heaven that is the true world will become one's own when he discards his false mind completely.

Woo Myung

#20. When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.

Frederic Chopin

#21. I want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

Khaled Hosseini

#22. If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity.

Josh McDowell

#23. The human memory is such a cruel, frustrating thing, the way it just discards things without asking permission, precious things. At least here, in my house, I have control over my memories.

Lisa Jewell

#24. There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one.

Samuel Butler

#25. There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#26. he who discards his worldly duties can justify himself only by assuming some kind of responsibility toward a much larger family." The

Paramahansa Yogananda

#27. Thank you, God, for your Son and for blessing me beyond comprehension.

Veronica Roth

#28. One should always be drunk. That's all that matters ... But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

Charles Baudelaire

#29. Cancer. The word meant the same to me as tsunami or piranha. I had never seen them; I wasn't even quite sure what they were, but I knew they were bad and I knew in many cases they were deadly.

Natalie Palmer

#30. I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Lucille Ball

#31. He is the Truth, and He wants us to deal in truth with ourselves and our loved ones. We want the truth about you and your family to flood into and overrun the secrets that keep you in bondage to dysfunctional behavior and relationships

Henry Cloud

#32. Why are roses kept for their blossoms rather than shunned for their thorns?

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#33. He said: "It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity." They

P.D. James

#34. As far as I'm concerned, the world is composed of stories. For architects, the world is composed of buildings, for actors the world is composed of theatres, or whatever. For me, the world is simply composed of stories; when I look, that's what I see.

Neil Gaiman

#35. I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.

Jon Favreau

#36. The author says we enlist reasons to convince others to join the direction of our instincts.

Jonathan Haidt