Discard Quotes

126 Discard quotes by 109 unique authors

For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum — Thomas Jefferson
We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so… — Pablo Neruda
Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others. — Charlotte Saunders Cushman
...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore… — Abraham Lincoln
It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of… — Madeleine L'Engle
I have always emphasized the willingness to discard. — Daniel Kahneman
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. — Karl Kraus
In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate… — Ang Lee
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. — Konrad Lorenz
Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts. — Hilary Mantel
Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of… — Russell Means
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. — Ludwig von Mises
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth. — Ramakrishna
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must… — George Washington
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to… — Frank Herbert
Sometime we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a… — Aldo Leopold
I learned to pick up each piece, one at a time, from my pile of potential matches and try to fit it from any angle… — Craig Clevenger
The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard. — Baltasar Gracian
If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is… — John Henry Newman
The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence… — Brandon Sanderson
Never mind. Point being that you don't have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don't have to think of us… — Margaret Atwood
The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility. — E E Cummings

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