Subtracted Quotes

#1. How does a poet know when a poem is ended? Because it lies flat, taut; nothing can be added or subtracted. How does a woman know when a marriage is over? Because of the way her life suddenly shears off in just two directions: past and future.

Carol Shields

#2. In the beginning all souls were as a unity to the God-Force. As self added or subtracted that which was in keeping with God's purpose, ye added or subtracted from the blessings ye might be conscious of in materiality. Thus karma is builded. And the law is perfect - what ye sow, ye reap.

Edgar Cayce

#3. Sometimes something good has to be subtracted from our lives before something better can take its place.

Ann Spangler

#4. As with the normal life, one finds that every passing day represents more and more relentlessly subtracted from less and less. In other words, the process both etiolates you and moves you nearer toward death. How could it be otherwise?

Christopher Hitchens

#5. Bob was not yet twenty, after all, while Jesse was thirty-four and in physical decline; each calendar week subtracted from Jesse the powers that Bob accrued.

Ron Hansen

#6. A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.

David Lynch

#7. Every minute we waste in frustration over a task that seems overwhelming is a minute subtracted from the time we've allotted to enjoy life.

Marc Mancini

#8. I wanted to die; I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. I felt that nothing would be proved, substantiated, added or subtracted by continuing an existence which I had not asked for.

Henry Miller

#9. There is a sequence about the creative process, and a work of genius is a synthesis of its individual features from which nothing can be subtracted without disaster.

Seneca.

#10. Everything subtracted from the present is added to the future with interest.

CrimethInc.

#11. She'd taken ten years off his life, frightening him the way she had, and now he'd easily subtracted another ten by kissing her. If he spent much more time with Jenna Campbell, he'd be dead inside a week.

Debbie Macomber

#12. The pilgrims chant with every minute subtracted from their lives. This is their sacrifice.

Alan Lightman

#13. When she tallied kindness she subtracted abandonment.

J.K. Rowling

#14. Anything added can be subtracted; anything verbose can be simplified; anything missing can be found. Manuscripts are not books but negatives waiting for the fixer that turns them into prints.

Chloe Thurlow

#15. A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial configuration of a moment; what appears in the photograph is not the person but the sum of what can be subtracted from him or her.

Siegfried Kracauer

#16. If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

David Lee Roth

#17. The world was precarious, Lotto had learned. People could be subtracted from it with swift bad math.

Lauren Groff

#18. Your net worth to the
world is usually determined by what
remains after your bad habits are
subtracted from your good ones

Benjamin Franklin

#19. This is complete, that is complete, from completeness comes completeness, when completeness is added or subtracted, it still remains complete.' This

Devdutt Pattanaik

#20. That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast.

Nenia Campbell

#21. He thought, Yeah. Yeah, non-smokers live seven years longer. Which seven will be subtracted by the god called Time? It won't be that convulsive, heart-bursting spell between twenty-eight and thirty-five. No. It'll be that really cool bit between eighty-six and ninety-three.

Martin Amis

#22. Then there's politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse.

P. J. O'Rourke

#23. Jill felt an emptiness open inside of her as she lifted her arm, a sense that something vital was being subtracted from her life. It was always like that when somebody you cared about went away, even when you knew it was inevitable, and it probably wasn't your fault. (341)

Tom Perrotta

#24. You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.

Joe Frank

#25. No matter how puny your frontal equipment, don't wear the kind with the giant pads inside. If a guy squeezes them, he will wonder why they feel like Nerf balls instead of boobs.

E. Lockhart

#26. Why go through something alone when there's someone you trust to be with you?

Amy Goldwasser

#27. Life is a Gift. Unwrap it slowly and savor each moment, or, rip through it like a hurricane and get tossed around.

Cathrina Constantine

#28. Love is the strange attractor, the allurement that holds the Uni-verse together.

Marc Gafni

#29. It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.
It is when we are wounded by our own hands that love should come to cure us.
Else what use is love at all?

Oscar Wilde