You Are Expendable Quotes

#1. Today, you expand or you are expendable.

Les Brown

#2. Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.

Veronica Roth

#3. All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

Ted Williams

#4. Bradshaw especially didn't like the use of the word "experiment" in regard to social conditions. Experiments included of necessity, expendable components. Failure was a precursor to success. When the components were human, who had the audacity to use, lose them, toss them away?

Bernadette Pajer

#5. You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of expendable labor.

Justin Sewell

#6. We have discussed your definition, analyzed its ramifications to a reasonable depth, and accept it," said the expendable.
"Meaning I gave you what you wanted?"
"Ambition and desire are human traits. You gave us what we lacked.

Orson Scott Card

#7. I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.

Douglas Coupland

#8. If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

Phil McGraw

#9. What we must do is bring nonhuman animals within our sphere of moral concern and cease to treat their lives as expendable for whatever trivial purposes we may have.

Peter Singer

#10. Throughout its history, the United States has always had a class system. It is not only directed by the top 1 percent and supported by a contented middle class. We can no longer ignore the stagnant, expendable bottom layers of society in explaining the national identity. The

Nancy Isenberg

#11. I've thought about it," she said. "And I'm angry, Shane. I'm really angry. After everything we've done, everything we've risked, we're expendable. And it hurts. Believe me.

Rachel Caine

#12. Teachers are expendable, overworked, underpaid, and many times disrespected by students, parents and higher-ups. Nonetheless, these teachers still show up because there are some who are teachers indeed.

Monica Johnson

#13. You're not - " "Fast enough? Strong enough? Agile enough?" She did not necessarily disagree, but she wanted him to have faith she could do this. "Expendable," Sicarius said.

Lindsay Buroker

#14. We're an ecological disaster."
"Exactly," said the expendable.

Orson Scott Card

#15. For some girls, our bodies are not immortal so much as
expendable, we have punished them or wearied
from dragging them around for so long and so we go

wearing the brilliant plumage of the possibly freed
by death.

Connie Voisine

#16. When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look.

Vesta Williams

#17. Gays have rights, lesbians have rights, men have rights, women have rights, even animals have rights. How many of us have to die before the community recognizes that we are not expendable?

Octavia St. Laurent

#18. I'm no different than any other expendable player.

Mo Williams

#19. Africa will become an out-of-reach commodity instead of the expendable refuse heap we've treated her as.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#20. One of the hard lessons Leia had learned during the Rebellion was this: Any single life was expendable, including her own.

Claudia Gray

#21. There is no greater sensation of consciousness than to expend yourself completely through the quickening fires of passion.

Bryant McGill

#22. Remember that despite the fact that I'm a traitor and mass murderer, one of us is expendable, and it isn't me.

Yoon Ha Lee

#23. The military is such a hierarchical institution. It's an institution where, if you are assaulted by a person senior to you, you're probably the person that's expendable and that's going to get in trouble.

Joy-Ann Reid

#24. Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Florynce Kennedy

#25. DAMN! damn it all down
took one to the chest without even a sound so
WHAT! what are you worth
the things you love or the people you hurt
HEY! it's like deja vu
a suicidal maniac with nothing to lose
so wait, it's the exception to the rule
everyone of us in EXPENDABLE

Shinedown

#26. What are your qualifications for this job?" she asked. "I'm expendable," I said.

Ilona Andrews

#27. The death of those considered expendable to achieve such goals only leaves blood to drown the earth with the memory of corruption and confusion.

Tami Egonu

#28. So our reliance on the computers caused the failure of the mission?" asked the expendable.
"The mission didn't fail," said Ram. "It succeeded nineteen times. We're just the exhaust trail.

Orson Scott Card

#29. Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.

Marshall McLuhan

#30. Expendable was not the word I was looking to hear to boost my morale, but whatever.

Rachel Caine

#31. But as I peeked at my brother's inert body ... I was aware only of what a strange thing it was to be male. Society discriminated against women, no question. But what about the discrimination of being sent war? Which sex was really thought to be expendable.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#32. From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.

Jimmy Reid

#33. If you're someone who is intimately involved with a true masochist, and yet can't bring yourself to actually hurt that person, you're like the guy wearing a red uniform on a Star Trek away-mission: expendable.

Michael Makai

#34. Ships are expendable; the whales are not.

Paul Watson

#35. Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.

Marshall McLuhan

#36. We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then ... life goes on.

Sylvester Stallone

#37. It's better to have fewer things of quality than too much expendable junk.

Rachel Zoe

#38. I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

Nan Fairbrother

#39. Maternal health generally gets minimal attention because those who die or suffer injuries overwhelmingly start with three strikes against them: They are female, they are poor, and they are rural. Women are marginalized in the developing world, They are an expendable commodity.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#40. I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Harry S. Truman