Thrown Away Quotes
94 quotes by 84 authors
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A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner.…
— George Sand
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With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms from landfills to Superfund cleanups, from deep-well injection to storage of nuclear waste. In…
— Paul Hawken
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How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of…
— Duke Ellington
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Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless,…
— Boethius
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The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just be about recycling…
— Van Jones
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The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener…
— Samuel Johnson
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Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality…
— Francis Schaeffer
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One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a…
— Renee Fleming
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We should all remember... that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the poor, the hungry! I encourage everyone to reflect on…
— Pope Francis
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Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example, it…
— Pope Francis
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Let us make that one point - that no child will be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, or killed and thrown away.
— Mother Teresa
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I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in…
— John Henry Newman
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Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.
— Umberto Eco
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Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the…
— Helen Hunt Jackson
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I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few…
— Steffi Graf
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It's such a paradox for them to say, "Oh, my God, I've thrown away my life," and continue to do that for the last month…
— Patch Adams
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It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to…
— Ned Kelly
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