Quotes About Dispensable

#1. So on we tramped, three small dots on a big mountain, mere specks, beings of no importance. In creating this world, God showed that he was a great mathematician; but in creating man, he got his algebra wrong. Puffed up with self-importance, we are in fact the most dispensable of all his creatures.

Ruskin Bond

#2. Our essential role is to produce ever more sophisticated tools - to "fecundate" machines as bees fecundate plants - until technology has developed the capacity to reproduce itself on its own. At that point, we become dispensable.

Anonymous

#3. The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect
this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.

Twyla Tharp

#4. Ethics is not a mystic fantasy
nor a social convention
nor a dispensable, subjective luxury ... Ethics is an objective necessity of man's survival
not by the grace of the supernatural nor of your neighbors nor of your whims, but the grace of reality and the nature of life.

Ayn Rand

#5. The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

George Gilder

#6. The man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.

Flannery O'Connor

#7. People wasted so much time seeking out the love of their lives in the shape of a partner, when the truth was that for most the real loves of their lives were their children - and everyone else was dispensable.

Anna McPartlin

#8. Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.

Mu Xin

#9. Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Edsger Dijkstra

#10. I always liked Barbara Howar and admired her spunk. I know that she considered me - and Alice Roosevelt Longworth - an exception to her negative feelings about Washington widows and single women, whom she basically found dispensable.

Katharine Graham

#11. How dispensable are most people in our lives, collections of matter filling empty space until they're recycled.

Teddy Wayne

#12. War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with ... But it is not only a biological law but a moral obligation, and, as such, an dispensable factor in civilization.

Friedrich Von Bernhardi

#13. People who read books," he went on, "tend to be dispensable. Extremely.

Ninni Holmqvist

#14. The divinity of Jesus is not a dispensable extra that has no significance for our salvation. On the contrary, our salvation depends on it. We can be saved only by God Himself.

Klaas Runia

#15. Most people are dispensable in 'Game of Thrones,' not only in the story but in the series.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

#16. The people need a master only as long as they have no understanding of their own. The more it acquires understanding, the more the government is bound to change its methods and to disappear. The most noble end of government is to become dispensable, so that everyone must govern himself.

Johann Gottfried Herder

#17. Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.

Robert Grosseteste

#18. I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

Candice Bergen

#19. Everyone is dispensable but some are more dispensable than others.

Miles Anthony Smith

#20. Men need to remember that women talk about problems to get close and not necessarily to get solutions.

John Gray

#21. God bless the popcorn film. Especially movies where you can take the kids, because I remember looking forward to seeing these movies with my parents, and if I can give that back, I'm gonna do it.

Nicolas Cage

#22. While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#23. In my opinion, the only real asset one has is one's reputation, right? I mean, any company and institution can go belly up at any time. But if you have a good reputation, you know, you can usually find somebody who can - who thinks they can use what you have to offer.

Eric Betzig

#24. I was drinking tea the other day, and I thought: they used to fight wars over this.

Daniel Tosh

#25. I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.

Narendra Modi

#26. Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#27. Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly - and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe.

Victor Davis Hanson

#28. The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah.

David Novak

#29. This is the outer surface of the brain where much of our thinking is done. Unfolded, this surface layer would cover the area of a football field

James Tagg