Winnowed Quotes

#1. I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.

Warren Ellis

#2. In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

Margaret Mitchell

#3. Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Carl Sagan

#4. It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one's own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.5

Jonathan Haidt

#5. When one has attained a state of mind from which the evil passions of the present world have been so utterly winnowed, fear too is forgotten. Thus it was that the priest no longer could understand why Hell should exist.

Yukio Mishima

#6. Their lives had been an interminable loop of repeated gestures; now their existences were winnowed to this discrete and eternal moment.

Colson Whitehead

#7. Why does the brave druskelle Matthias Helvar eat no meat? 'Tis a sad story indeed, my child. His teeth were winnowed away by a vexatious Grisha, and now he can eat only pudding.

Leigh Bardugo

#8. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

William James

#9. There are only two kinds of books
good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

Edward Abbey

#10. Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey and winnowed their wisdom for years.

Thomas Boswell

#11. Anxiety is caused by a lack of control, organization, preparation, and action. - David Kekich

David Allen

#12. Self-love is beginning but others-love is the end. Self-love is important but insufficient.

Girdhar Joshi

#13. I was thanking him for ... well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.

Arthur Golden

#14. I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.

Beyonce Knowles

#15. Supramolecular chemistry is the chemistry of the intermolecular bond, covering the structures and functions of the entities formed by association of two or more chemical species.

Jean-Marie Lehn

#16. the thing worth holding on to would not have let go

Rupi Kaur

#17. Slightly older men and women, they had professions and soft slacks with knife pleats and a certain ease of bearing and belonging, the package of attitudes and values known as lifestyle

Don DeLillo

#18. We talked on the phone for a long time yesterday," she said. "He's sorry, Joe. He's really sorry. He broke down and cried like a baby." "I can't believe I'm hearing this. Why don't you at least

Scott Pratt

#19. Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

William Blake

#20. Power," growled the Supreme Grand Master, "does not come cheap.

Terry Pratchett

#21. To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.

Betty Williams

#22. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Francis Beaumont

#23. When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life of ours with least injury to the lives around us; how can we prevent our own life adding to the suffering of the world in which we live?

Annie Besant

#24. The important thing when it comes to grooming, as when it comes to clothes, is you do not want anything to distract from the strength and power of your ideas,.

Vanessa Friedman

#25. There were a million What Ifs that could have stopped the whole thing. A million things I wished I'd done differently. But in the end, I was left with what actually happened. With my mistakes and his.

Rachel Vincent