Dispensing Quotes

#1. God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people

Howard G. Hendricks

#2. We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.

Atul Gawande

#3. Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.

Jimmy Savile

#4. It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#5. ...the mental probabilistic map in one's mind is so geared toward sensational that one would realize informational gains by dispensing with the news.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. Although attracted by the humanities, I had chosen medicine as a career, seduced by the image of the 'man in white' dispensing care and solace to the suffering. But science was lurking around the corner, in the form of an unpaid student assistantship in the laboratory of physiology.

Christian De Duve

#7. As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it ...

Ambrose Bierce

#8. Medicine's a funny business. After all, dispensing chemicals is considered mainstream and diet and nutrition is considered alternative.

Charles F. Glassman

#9. Entrepreneurs are favored in neoliberal contexts because they prize ingenuity, self-invention, adaptation, dispensing with establishment hierarchies, and self-mastery. Church planting can be read as a religious incarnation of late modernity's entrepreneurial disposition.

James S Bielo

#10. So I'm back again to the eternal question, the one that has plagued me all my life: How Do Other People Do It? How come they were given life's rule book and I missed out? Where was I when God was dispensing capability and cop on? Looking at shoes, probably.

Marian Keyes

#11. Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded by her children's gratitude, and if she perceived that her children were not sufficiently grateful, she could make something of that, too.

Michael McDowell

#12. I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. Every day, the dispensing of existence ... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient.

Martin Amis

#14. I'm not as interested in dispensing knowledge on how to make a living ass I am in helping young people learn how to make a life...

D. Bruce Lockerbie

#15. And the single action scam was dispensing cash like water gushing down Niagara Falls.

Joe Bruno

#16. The professor is not merely an information dispensing machine, but a skilled navigator of a complex landscape.

William Badke

#17. The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.

Muhammad Ali

#18. I left parts of myself everywhere,
The way absent-minded people leave
Gloves and umbrellas
Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck

Charles Simic

#19. Democracy ... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Plato

#20. Some set great value on method, while others pride themselves on dispensing with method.

Chai Lu

#21. It is said that dispensing advice is easy. What is difficult is getting anyone to listen to it.

Judith Martin

#22. Instead of standing on a stage each day, dispensing knowledge to my young charges, I should guide them as they approach their own understandings.

Donalyn Miller

#23. There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.

Napoleon Hill

#24. Forgiveness was like charity: You could dispense it, or not. And, as with charity, the one dispensing held the power.

Joe Okonkwo

#25. Los Angeles: city that was nothing but a slot machine dispensing plastic toys.

Marge Piercy

#26. When single you are," Roger said, imitating Yoda dispensing advice to Luke, "get laid you can. When married you get, make love you do.

Sean Kennedy

#27. Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one's country.

Sathya Sai Baba

#28. Here he was dispensing them as advice when he had only just taken them in as revelation. So, he thought, do all men steal and display the shiny jackdaw treasure of other people's ideas.

Helen Simonson

#29. All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

Rita Mae Brown

#30. Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

Deepak Chopra

#31. God is the God of the present as well as of the future ... even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil.

Alfred Edersheim

#32. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

William Shakespeare

#33. Bit it was her scent that just about killed him. Clean skin. Woman. And something more - something that made him feel like dispensing with five thousand years of civilization, dragging her off to a cave somewhere, and filling her with babies.

Pamela Clare

#34. Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential, you realize you can also do without something else, then without many other things.

Italo Calvino

#35. Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.

Greil Marcus

#36. A man dressed in a radiant white uniform stands below the ragged maw of the jetway holding his hands downwards with fluorescent orange sticks in them, like Christ dispensing mercy on a world of sinners.

Neal Stephenson

#37. The natural tendency of the state is inflation. This statement will shock those accustomed to viewing the state as a committee of the whole nation ardently dispensing the general welfare, but I think it nonetheless true.

Murray Rothbard