Unimproved Quotes

#1. Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

George D. Prentice

#3. Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

George Washington

#4. For the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude and lacking in arrangement ...

Edward Weston

#5. The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that it should be so; as such common prejudices contribute more to order and quiet, than their own separate reasonings would do, uncultivated and unimproved as they are.

Lord Chesterfield

#6. The improved means to the unimproved end.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. You are supposed to look at the unimproved and think about the way that we dismiss so-called 'chavs' and certain immigrant classes that are considered unworthy, the "undeserving poor". Those kind of prejudices are getting worse.

Jonathan Trigell

#8. Cover each with plastic wrap (you see, I hope, that I am no mere antiquarian, insisting on barefoot walks through unimproved sculleries. I am as grateful as anyone for real progress as any modernist. More so, perhaps. Anything that preserves freshness for the pot is on the side of the angels.

Robert Farrar Capon

#9. I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#10. My main concern is to protect people from detriment.

Jean-Claude Juncker

#11. I have a special gift, and I go out and use it. I don't think you can hide it. I'm just confident in myself-always have been.

Clinton Portis

#12. Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

Willa Cather

#13. In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.

Tullian Tchividjian

#14. Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

Robert Half

#15. There can never be suffering in the home of a person who is working for world's salvation.

Dada Bhagwan

#16. I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.

Ashthon Jones

#17. Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

Anish Kapoor

#18. We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person's uniqueness.

Arthur P. Ciaramicoli