Debris Quotes

70 Debris quotes by 69 unique authors

As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do. — Christopher Alexander
Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them. — Madame de Stael
Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a… — Pablo Neruda
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that… — Bertrand Russell
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party… — Leon Trotsky
Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that… — Anne Monroe
Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in the fresh, healing… — Lahiri Mahasaya
The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the… — Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and… — Edward Abbey
The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris… — George H. W. Bush
Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentleman, I just--he was a worthless shred of human debris... — Rush Limbaugh
At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma,… — Joy Harjo
The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. — John F. Kennedy
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece… — Gautama Buddha
Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and the… — Toby Hemenway
So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future. — Mark Twight
The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a single catastrophe which… — Walter Benjamin
When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up in their proper places, so… — Stanislaw Lem
Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water.… — Ted Nugent
Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding… — David Allen
Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked… — George Ayittey
Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what… — Helen Humphreys
The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris. — Edward Tufte
There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of… — Will Durst

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