Debris Quotes
70 quotes by 69 authors
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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
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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
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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
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The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.
— Edward Tufte
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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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Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
— Anselm Kiefer
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Behind the debris of these self-styled, sullen supermen and imperial diplomatists, there stands the gigantic figure of one person, because of whom, by whom, in…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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For so long I have lived on the edge of an invisible world. Sometimes I feel like the scattered debris left over after the personality…
— Steve Rasnic Tem
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Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class…
— Isaac
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I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the road that takes…
— Shane Koyczan
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It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the…
— Indra Devi
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During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a…
— Bo Gritz
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For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I…
— Albert Camus
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History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles…
— Jacques Barzun
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Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m…
— Thomas Pynchon
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.
— Nikolai Gogol
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The oil acts like a cleanser. When you put it in your mouth and work it around your teeth and gums it ‘pulls’ out bacteria…
— Bruce Fife
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If the roof caves in and the tenants are sitting in the debris, they will laugh like hell. They will endure any hardship as long…
— Harry Golden
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One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers. They go forging ahead, seeing only their…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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