Top 32 Subtraction And Addition Quotes
#1. The process of change is made up of subtraction and addition. Taking something off and then puttin something on.
Creflo A. Dollar
#2. I learned a long time ago, Ellie, that 'if only' is a very dangerous game indeed.
Jojo Moyes
#3. The state of a moral man, is one of tranquillity and peace; the state of an immoral man is one of perpetual unrest.
Marquis De Sade
#5. I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
Donald Miller
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
Meister Eckhart
#14. I find the average quality of present parenting appallingly poor, I have every reason to believe it far superior to that of just a few generations back. A
M. Scott Peck
#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. There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#17. Apapa, Falyn, she scolded with a perfect Greek accent.
Jamie McGuire
#18. I dreamt of going on the stage once," he said, looking crestfallen. "It's never too late," I said vaguely. A lie, of course, as often, unfortunately, it is much too late.
Kate Atkinson
#19. Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.
Julian Barnes
#20. We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.
R.C. Sproul
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Paul McCartney
#25. Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.
Djimon Hounsou
#26. The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.
Guy Kawasaki
#27. Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
J.C. Ryle
#28. Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?
Julian Barnes
#29. Whatever a man knows, whatever is not mere rumbling and roaring that he has heard, can be said in three words.
Ferdinand Kurnberger
#30. If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
Thomas Sowell
#31. Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.
Donald Rumsfeld
#32. 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
