Minus Quotes

146 quotes by 130 authors

Happiness is equal to work minus resistance. — Wolfgang Ostwald
I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak. — Shaquille O'Neal
Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of… — John Updike
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense. — Agnes Repplier
There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus… — Arthur Eddington
The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent. — Calvin Trillin
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in… — Charles Thom
The Earth is warming but physical evidence from around the world tells us that human-emitted carbon dioxide has played only a minor role in it.… — Fred Singer
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time… — Galen Rowell
Literature is the question minus the answer. — Roland Barthes
Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling… — Harriet Quimby
Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default. — Chevy Chase
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason — Mason Cooley
Happiness is your original nature, it is YOU, minus your neurosis — Robert Holden
The definition of disappointment in life is expectations minus reality equals disappointment. The only two solutions you have to get over disappointment is to either… — Randy Carlson
In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways. As… — Chris Hadfield
A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money, — Robert Crandall
We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury! — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness… — Arthur Balfour
Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman. — Henry Ford

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