Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It was official. I now wanted to murder a ghost, a notion I'd discarded as unlikely only twenty minutes before. (Cat) — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded… — Tommy Franks Copy Share Image
When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. Joy… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
A man may doubt of God's existence when he is in good health, just as he may doubt whether his relation with… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Cut your manuscript ruthlessly but never throw anything away: it's amazing how often a discarded scene or description, which wouldn't fit in… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your… — James Salter Copy Share Image
[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (…) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a… — Denys Johnson-Davies Copy Share Image
During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
We think that it's the big moments that define our lives-the wedding, the baby, the new house, the dream job. But really,… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Here's why I don't have time to 'play church': at the end of the day, when I was supposed to be discarded,… — Fred Hammond Copy Share Image
“His gaze settles on the discarded book. He leans, reaching until his fingertips graze Dante's Inferno, still on its bed of folded… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Today children are disposed of because there is no food or because they are killed before being born – children are discarded.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We must drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily - in part because we think it does. Today changes… — Donald M. Nelson Copy Share Image
I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded. — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
“The protective anti-elemental symbols still lay discarded on the floor where Akil had torn them from the walls right before ripping my… — Pippa DaCosta Copy Share Image
Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“When no one was watching, he allowed himself a moment of self-pity. Maybe this was all he deserved, to be used and… — Barbara Elsborg Copy Share Image
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Painting requires skill. Photography is created by the camera, and one cannot fully control what the camera sees. So people take many… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman… — Candice Olson Copy Share Image
We are continuously living a new life, and when the old and the new do not fit nicely together, the old -… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't… — David Cone Copy Share Image
I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Oh, I've discarded a great many [poems]. And occasionally I've discarded and then resurrected. I would find a crumpled yellow ball of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Only an open mind still has room for new knowledge. What is outgrown and used up must be discarded to make room… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
![“[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless…” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0b3/carl-sagan-160_argument_science-is-not-perfect-it-can-be-misused_2558360.jpg)
![“Oh, I've discarded a great many [poems]. And occasionally I've discarded and then resurrected. I would find a crumpled yellow ball of paper in the wastebasket, in the morning, and open it to see what the hell I'd been up to; and occasionally it was something that needed only a very slight change…” quote by Conrad Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/333/conrad-aiken-9766_balls_oh-i-ve-discarded-a-great-many-poems-and_2787753.jpg)
