Cleaning Up Quotes
51 quotes by 48 authors
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War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
— Karl Marlantes
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And that is true in 85 percent of kids; it's kids who live in old, dilapidated, mostly urban housing. But that still leaves 15 percent…
— Deirdre Imus
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God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in…
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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Poor people of all colors are getting poorer and our communities are getting more toxic. There is a misconception that to grow our economy we…
— Majora Carter
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The shadow banking sector has played an important role in cleaning up toxic assets.
— Anshu Jain
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The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness.…
— Ram Dass
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Surrender happens by Grace. All we're doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.
— Krishna Das
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I hope and pray that mother nature is leaving us alone to get on with the job of cleaning up and recovering from this event.
— Anna Bligh
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When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves,…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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When you are converted, you want to do what you didn't want to do before, and you don't want to do what you wanted to…
— D. A. Carson
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The American Left complains that we have no right to be the world's police force. On the contrary. We've been the world's janitor for almost…
— Tammy Bruce
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A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.
— Laurence J. Peter
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I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.
— John Bercow
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In my home state of Delaware, we've done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we've made great strides in cleaning up our…
— Thomas Carper
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Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely…
— Jeff Goodell
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The Dutch and the Norwegians, they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills.
— Sarah Palin
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There is no more important task in Washington than cleaning up the culture of corruption. Yet the president - whose White House has become the…
— Harry Reid
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We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago.…
— Gerald R. Ford
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Life is a constant series of cleaning up the last mess.
— Jillian Lauren
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In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes…
— Kevin O'Leary
Who Wrote These Cleaning Up Quotes
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