Pluses Quotes

#1. I think there are pluses and minuses to being simpleminded. The minus is not having any sort of vision for the future. But on the plus side, my wife and I have really been happy through all of the ups and downs.

Ty Burrell

#2. From the looks of it, he spent a lot of time outdoors and liked to be prepared, both big pluses in Billie's book.

Elaine Hussey

#3. I've learned a lot about myself. Most of it is all right. When I add up the pluses and subtract the minuses, I still come out pretty well.

Betty Ford

#4. I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.

Dennis Washington

#5. There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards.

Deepak Chopra

#6. I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

Toni Morrison

#7. Even in my neighborhood, the kids come to me for interviews for their term papers. I ask them later what grades they got, and they're always A-pluses.

Stephanie Kwolek

#8. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

Margaret Atwood

#9. I don't like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things.

Shirley Temple

#10. One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

Joseph O'Neill

#11. All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.

Peter Lynch

#12. Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.

Jack Canfield

#13. I've learned a couple of things. And one of the things I have learned is that every experience has pluses and minuses.

Petra Nemcova

#14. Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.

Edmund Phelps

#15. Every president when he is elected has to live with the pluses and minuses his predecessor leaves, which includes benefits as well as burdens.

Donald Rumsfeld

#16. One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.

Nicolas Cage

#17. My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

Billy Corgan

#18. When I sign on to a television show [Mistresses], I have to love that show and character so much, but this was in and out, for seven episodes. And it was nice to be able to make some money again because I hadn't work in a year and a half. There were a lot of pluses.

Shannyn Sossamon

#19. The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

Emily Oster

#20. If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.

Petra Nemcova

#21. We are continuing to look for ways that we can do something that's good for both of us. Good for both of us being the Cowboys relative to relief as to our cap management and good for him that would maybe be some pluses for him on his contract.

Jerry Jones

#22. Self-awareness can't be built on looking at our pluses and minuses before we look at the most basic essence of what we are.

Ruben Papian

#23. Group chanting and prayer is very powerful. It can bring important changes.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#24. I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes, you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California, I have to go to prison, don't I? I think you only get three.

Roseanne Barr

#25. If they don't utter the words, it cannot happen. But words, once spoken, seal a man or maid for life or death. [Gisa]

Karen Maitland

#26. What you are passionate about was created in you to make a splash in this life that no one else can make. Make it. Make it now.

Diane Moody

#27. I loved having a dad who was smarter than the New York Times, and I loved how my cheek could feel the hairs on his chest through his T-shirt, and how he always smelled like shaving, even at the end of the day. Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#28. You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can't admire him because of them.

Elizabeth Harrower

#29. A fuller expression of Self comes from the journey for greater wholeness.

Kathryn V. White

#30. The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

Francis Quarles

#31. Love is too weak a word for what I feel - I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, two F's, yes.

Woody Allen

#32. Before bed, I read a book or flip on the radio - I'm not picky, I'll just turn it on and see what comes up. I burn a yummy lavender- scented candle.

Carrie Underwood

#33. May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.

Max Lucado