Top 31 Quotes About Addition And Subtraction
#1. Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.
Julian Barnes
#2. If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The game would become merely a matter of addition and subtraction. It would make of us a race of bookkeepers with plodding minds. It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#3. Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?
Julian Barnes
#4. in this job you really need to know only four things: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - and most of the time you can get by without division!" I
Emanuel Derman
#5. I was deeply identified with a very unhappy, egoic entity I believed was "me." For years I lived in depression and continuous anxiety. One night I couldn't stand it anymore. The thought came into my mind, "I cannot live with myself any longer."
Eckhart Tolle
#6. The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.
Charles Dickens
#7. Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#9. I think we all want to find the love of our life and live our fantasies. What art student hasn't used his art to get girls? What journalists or actors haven't used their craft as well? It's a very human instinct to pursue.
Max Minghella
#10. Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
H.L. Mencken
#11. I've become really aware of all the subtle things you can communicate through the art and how you're presenting a character, particularly someone like Wonder Woman, who means so much to so many people.
Cliff Chiang
#12. In men whom men condemn as ill
I find so much of goodness still,
In men whom men pronounce divine
I find so much of sin and blot,
I do not dare to draw a line
Between the two, where God has not.
Joaquin Miller
#13. Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#14. The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
Meister Eckhart
#15. Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.
George Eliot
#16. No one spoke. There was none to curse and none to pray, we just watched.
Cormac McCarthy
#17. There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#18. So knowledge grows by subtraction much more than by addition - given that what we know today might turn out to be wrong but what we know to be wrong cannot turn out to be right, at least not easily.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#19. For the first time ever we are bound together instead of miles apart in the same place.
Dorothy Koomson
#20. I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few women there are in ... important positions in society
Susanne Bier
#21. The process of change is made up of subtraction and addition. Taking something off and then puttin something on.
Creflo A. Dollar
#23. Life is addition! Death is subtraction. You add to your life by imagining whatsoever things are true, lovely, noble, and Godlike. Imagine and feel yourself successful, and you must become successful. You are never a slave to circumstances, environment, or conditions.
Joseph Murphy
#24. Because all of us are made not only of what we have but what we lost. And loss is not a subtraction. As an experience, it is an addition.
Augusten Burroughs
#25. The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
Vivienne Westwood
#26. Cheer up, my dear," said Rose, leaning affectionately on her husband's arm; "it is altogether addition and not subtraction; you have not lost a daughter but gained a son.
Martha Finley
#27. Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
J.C. Ryle
#28. Again, please," she whispered.
(Allie to Wes)
Jodi Thomas
#29. Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.
Donald Rumsfeld
#30. Winners do not whine, they roar. Let me hear you roar!
Ken Polson
#31. It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.
Michael Pollan
