Rid Quotes
1156 quotes by 939 authors
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The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting rid of social…
— Brooks Atkinson
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The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.
— Hans Zimmer
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We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands…
— H.G. Wells
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It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid...These schools should get rid of unionized…
— Newt Gingrich
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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your…
— Walter F. Mondale
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If people around you aren't going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they're dragging you down,…
— Magic Johnson
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Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which…
— Matthieu Ricard
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If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow…
— Laozi
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Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it;…
— John Flavel
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Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy.…
— Alan Watts
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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
— Robert Henri
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Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It's imperative to realize that it is not necessary to try to get rid of fear in order to succeed. Rich and successful people have…
— T. Harv Eker
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Poor people will do almost anything to avoid problems. They see a challenge and they run...the secret to success, my friends, is not to try…
— T. Harv Eker
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Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them…
— James M. Barrie
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Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing…
— Thomas Brooks
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