Subtracts Quotes

#1. They know how to work without waste of energy. In order to get the best that is within themselves, they learn to eliminate from their thoughts and actions everything which subtracts from their purposes.

Walter Russell

#2. Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#3. War made the state, and the state made war

Charles Tilly

#4. If I am creating the shots from scratch I may have to spend more time holding the directors hand and therefore have less time to finesse the shot or the lighting etc. but it really all depends on the project. Some films benefit from their spontaneity.

Roger Deakins

#5. Everything has its own time

Sunday Adelaja

#6. If fact were enough, you could take a photo of the subject. Unlike the sensitive observer, however, the camera never selects or comments, never adds or subtracts.

Paul Strisik

#7. The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

Diane De Poitiers

#8. If you fail, let the world knows the reasons of your failure; if you win, let the world knows the secrets of your victory! This is a great way to be useful for others!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. If the past was the age of adding to one's mind, now is the age of subtracting what is in his mind. A person who subtracts his minds in this time will recover his original nature.

Woo Myung

#10. Two guys and I love them both. Loyalty divides and subtracts me from both of them.

Corrine Jackson

#11. Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer.

David McCullough Jr.

#12. Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#13. Spring adds, summer multiplies, autumn subtracts, winter divides.

David Mitchell

#14. What philosopher of the schoolroom, with the mental dowry of four summers, ever questions the power of the wand that opened the dark eyes of the beautiful princess, or subtracts a single inch from the stride of seven leagues?

Robert Aris Willmott

#15. Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in. However, the use of a certain type of glass might change the comfort level.

Helmut Jahn

#16. Love subtracts sorrow,
divides trouble,
adds blessings,
and multiplies joy.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothing
is immune.

Luanne Castle

#18. I am not so interested in religion or dogma of any kind. It is too restrictive for me, too organizational, too hierarchical, and too tied up in power and being right. You call it a "rabid evangelism."

Terry Tempest Williams

#19. The time you wait subtracts the joy
The heads the angel you destroy

Jim Morrison

#20. Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

Josef Albers

#21. There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#22. Rudeness is limiting. Sometimes a false hospitality can be even more dangerous, as any reader of fairy tales must know.

Patrick Flanery

#23. The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.

Brennan Manning