Top 100 Quotes About Rid
#1. Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.
Rose Schneiderman
#2. You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!
Jack LaLanne
#3. The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as "I am such an important man" or "I am so and so". Level the mound of "I" to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.
Ramakrishna
#4. What I know is that those who risked their lives to earn the pleasure of God are real men. They managed to rid the Islamic nation of disgrace. We hold them in the highest esteem.
Osama Bin Laden
#5. How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose..! You drove them from me, you who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place ... O Lord my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation.
Augustine Of Hippo
#6. I've helped people get rid of headaches by placing my hand on their forehead, and backaches by placing my hand on their back. It's a powerful example of love that really works.
Shelley Long
#7. Sometimes I have a feeling that I just can't get rid of. Sometimes there's an experience that I want to write about that I have to get off my chest. Sometimes there are some words that appeal to you.
Edward Hirsch
#8. but it also had an odd metallic tang to it that I instantly recognized from when I was Buddy and had a bad taste in my mouth that I couldn't get rid of. The bald man probably had the same taste in his mouth, because it was on his breath.
W. Bruce Cameron
#9. The dreams that were buried the deepest were the hardest to get rid of.
Michelle M. Pillow
#10. Atticus: You hear that? The nice blonde in her thirties is actually over 140 years old. :
Oberon: She must use that Oil of Olay stuff. I wonder if it would get rid of the wrinkles on a shar-pei?
Kevin Hearne
#11. You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
P. J. O'Rourke
#12. Was I wearing my 'I'm done with my virginity, please get rid of it for me' T-shirt?
Rachel Vincent
#13. I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was probably between the second and third grade and a guy got rid of it for me.
Lee Hazlewood
#14. People everywhere are looking at an image of me, right now, and I have absolutely no control over it. The blue hair!! I have to get rid of this blue hair.
Sarah Michelle Lynch
#15. If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.
Deepak Chopra
#16. Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them.
Geoff Mulgan
#17. I notice that as I get rid of the protective covering of the middle years, I am more openly amused and incautious and less careful socially, and that all this makes for increasingly pleasant contacts with the world.
M.F.K. Fisher
#18. I make sure to hold onto everything, even the stuff I've gotten rid of, because if there's one thing I've learned about the band is that I'll bring stuff in, and it's oftentimes the stuff that I've gotten rid of that's the stuff that everyone else is like, "yeah!!!!"
John Dieterich
#19. If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.
Charles Koch
#20. My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
Pancho Villa
#21. Richard Nixon was a very intelligent and able man. And he had the right ideas. But he did not have the adherence to principles that [Ronald] Reagan had. He did some very good things. We owe to Richard Nixon the volunteer army - he got rid of the draft. And that was a major increase in freedom.
Milton Friedman
#22. Cold stabilization has these benefits, however: it gets rid of the crystals, which is nice in a cosmetic sense. It reduces the acidity slightly and softens the wine. The latter benefit is the chief one.
Jeff Cox
#23. We do not build or create a spiritual consciousness; we merely get rid of all that obscures our pure vision
Roy Davis
#24. Only when the problem is gone will we get rid of the word 'feminism'. But I doubt that will happen in my lifetime
Caroline Criado-Perez
#25. fleas are like a bad habit - awfully hard to get rid of once you get them
Haruki Murakami
#26. I'm pretty brutal about getting rid of stuff. There wasn't anything where I was like, "Oh, I miss that," because usually it's for a good reason.
Nicholas Stoller
#27. When water isn't rippled, it is naturally still. When a mirror isn't clouded, it is clear of itself. So the mind is not to be cleared; get rid of what muddles it, and its clarity will spontaneously appear. Pleasure need not be sought; get rid of what pains you, and pleasure is naturally there.
Zicheng Hong
#28. Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad.
Sally Field
#29. There are two ways to get rid of an anxiety monster,my friend-you either have a bath or a nap.
Andrew Kaufman
#30. You can never get rid of all of your fears. Some are necessary and a part of life. But most of our fears are illusory, based on risks or threats that exist only in our minds. Such fears constrain and make you miserable. The feeling of moving past a particular fear is one of liberation and freedom.
Robert Greene
#31. A man cannot get rid of the responsibility, for his own actions.
Leo Tolstoy
#32. Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, Third Class, Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defense League, and five times winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award. But I don't talk about that; I didn't get rid of the Banden Banshee by smiling at him.
J.K. Rowling
#33. One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.
P.G. Wodehouse
#34. Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#35. Immobilization: A state, however mild or serious, in which you are not functioning at the level that you would like to. If feelings lead to such a state, you need to look no further for a reason to get rid of them.
Wayne W. Dyer
#36. Fear is what created the monster in the room, and in order to overcome the many problems and enslavements that we have today, it is not about getting rid of the monster, but about getting rid of the fear.
Evita Ochel
#37. You can't get rid of a part that makes you you and be happy.
Ingrid Law
#38. This was dangerous talk - in these enlightened times, a wise woman would never be too clever. The accusation of witchcraft had rid many men of an ugly wife and yet more women of an attractive rival.
Joss Alexander
#39. She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
Milan Kundera
#40. The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
Adam Carolla
#42. Jill continues: "I scored a top-10 shortstop by getting rid of two players I had planned to drop and, oh yes, a blow job that I never ever planned to give.
Matthew Berry
#43. I don't like jellyfish, they're not a fish, they're just a blob.
They don't have eyes, fins or scales like a cod.
They float about blind, stinging people in the seas,
And no one eats jellyfish with chips and mushy peas.
Get rid of 'em!
Karl Pilkington
#44. Missis was, she dared say, glad enough to get rid of such a tiresome, ill-conditioned child, who always looked as if she were watching everybody, and scheming plots underhand. Abbot, I think, gave me credit for being a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes.
Charlotte Bronte
#45. The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.
Anthony De Mello
#46. It'd taken another half hour under the shower to peel his throbbing eyes open and get rid of the stench of cheap whiskey and even cheaper cigars.
Alexandra Ivy
#47. I look at myself and read what people say on the internet and some fans say the club should get rid of me - which shows how fickle some people can be.
Robbie Savage
#48. I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York for the summer doing modeling and commercials and auditioning for Broadway. The mother I lived with for the summer taught me how to drop my Southern accent.
Nikki DeLoach
#49. He just tells him to "descend" from his power position, "go away and get rid of all your possessions." Money is only the metaphor here; the real possession he has to get rid of is his ego.
Richard Rohr
#50. I won't kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can't get rid of habits.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#51. To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.
H.L. Mencken
#52. Baby, it's not time's job to rid you of your insecurities. It's mine. If a man loves his woman right, protects her, provides for her and cherishes every single facet of her complex personality, then there will be no need for insecurities.
Jaymin Eve
#53. The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.
Rajneesh
#54. Estragon: we lost our rights?
vladimir: we got rid of them.
Samuel Beckett
#55. There's no getting rid of you. You are already in my bloodstream and woven into the marrow of my bones.
Lindsey Ouimet
#56. Five questions for politicians: 1. What power have you got? 2. Where did you get it from? 3. In whose interest do you exercise it? 4. To whom are you accountable? 5. How can we get rid of you?
Tony Benn
#57. I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all ... except what you can't be rid of.
Marilynne Robinson
#58. It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#59. The fear habit is very detrimental because you attract the things you fear. If we have any fear we need to get rid of it.
Peace Pilgrim
#60. Many of us have bought into the idea that science, though practiced by humans, has managed to rid itself of human flaws. But if we intend to question everything, perhaps we should begin by questioning whether the human testing of human ideas can be so simple, considering how complicated humans are.
Douglas Axe
#61. I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space ... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!
Halle Berry
#62. Every Republican will tell you they are for school choice, shrinking government, cutting the government workforce and getting rid of Common Core. But talk is cheap. Talk is just talk. I haven't just talked about these things. I've actually done these things.
Bobby Jindal
#63. An old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.
Fanny Burney
#64. I guess if you stay around long enough, they can't get rid of you.
Paul Butterfield
#65. [L]ook at it from Vicente Fox's point of view. I mean if - if you had a renegade, potential criminal element that was poor and unwilling to work, and you had a chance to get rid of 500,000 every year, would you do it?
Rush Limbaugh
#66. Shake up your life a bit. Get rid of the cobwebs. Take the road less traveled. Most people live within the confines of their comfort zone. Yogi Raman was the first person to explain to me that the best thing you can do for yourself is regularly move beyond it.
Robin S. Sharma
#67. Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.
Charlaine Harris
#68. In other words, now that she had rid herself of falsehood, that young woman had only to be herself. Ah, but what is "herself"? I mean, what is a woman? I assure you, I do not know, I do not believe that you know.
Virginia Woolf
#70. If you want to be right-sized in body, you've got to get rid of the supersize way of life.
Bob Harper
#71. Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.
Steven Johnson
#72. They were princesses once, charged with saving the kingdom from a dragon, and whoever could defeat it would be queen. Daisy used strength, Amelia wits, and Isabelle fell in love with the dragon, because that's the sort of girl she was. She rid the kingdom of the dragon, and then made it its king.
Anne Ursu
#73. If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago ...
Cheri Huber
#74. I made a promise to my parents that I would rid the city of the evil that took their lives.
Jeph Loeb
#75. The voice of Shame says, I basically hate me; I need to get rid of me. The voice of Discipline says, I've got to fix me, because me is not good. God says, I love you; let me restore you.
Stasi Eldredge
#76. The Catch-22 of wrongology: in order to get rid of error, we would already need to be infallible.
Kathryn Schulz
#77. And I am a writer, writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones ...
Colin Meloy
#78. Once we realize that government doesn't work, we'll know that the only way to improve government is by reducing its size - by doing away with laws, by getting rid of programs, by making government spend and tax less, by reducing government as far as we can.
Harry Browne
#80. For God's sake, take the religion out of your life or all kind of absurdities will take the reason out of your life! Keep God, get rid of religion! God, Love and Science; the Magnificent Trinity! All you need is these three things!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. She would be free of mundane care, she was a pure will towards right. She had sold herself, but she had a new freedom. She had got rid of her body. She had sold a lower thing, her body, for a higher thing, her freedom from material things.
D.H. Lawrence
#82. Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.
Marianne Williamson
#83. Do not like this taste for adventure you have developed, sister."
"I am afraid I cannot guarantee I shall be rid of it anytime soon.
Sarah MacLean
#84. One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.
Ray Manzarek
#85. If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him.
Umar
#86. It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
Fred Woodworth
#87. For wine is the color of blood and the texture of tears, and you can drink it to warm your belly and piss it out to get rid of it. And forget the whole damned mess that is too much for any man to face.
Oakley Hall
#88. Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen."
James Russell Lowell
#89. I didn't even think of my breasts in a nostalgic way, I just wanted to be able to live my life without that fear all the time. It's not 'pity me', it's a decision I made that's got rid of this weight that I was carrying around.
Sharon Osbourne
#90. It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
Harold Wilson
#91. I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry on making music and building myself as a person.
King Krule
#92. Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#93. When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to lots of places. And I thought someone would run my column, I thought it was popular, and no one wanted it.
Joel Stein
#94. There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.
Jean-Marc Vallee
#95. I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.
Jean Tinguely
#96. I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book ...
Vladimir Nabokov
#97. My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.
Idi Amin
#98. You're under my skin. Can't get rid of you. Sometimes when I sleep ... I can smell you," he admitted. "I can see your eyes and those cute glasses you wear. I wonder what it would feel like to run my fingers through your hair.
Maya Banks
#99. Getting rid of most of my personal library comported nicely with my longheld fantasy of traveling light, existing with minimal encumbrances, living simply. A fantasy it has always been, for the longr I have lived, the heavier has my equipage grown.
Joseph Epstein
#100. I don't care why they love me, as long as they love me. I think people respect me because they feel like - I'm kind of like Christmas. I come back every year. You can't get rid of me. I just keep coming back.
David Hasselhoff
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