Throwing Away Quotes (page 4)

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• time
• men
• may

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. Charles Caleb Colton

• good
• great
• acceptance

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like. John Zorn

• most
• productivity
• throw

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. Ken Thompson

• time
• firsts
• right

Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time. Kenneth Noland

• to live
• feeling
• work

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use. Mother Teresa

• self
• sacrifice
• giving

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice. Henry Taylor

• shadow
• forever
• throwing

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows. Jennie Churchill

• truthfulness
• happen
• grain

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff. Dean Stanley

• god
• wine
• wines

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• time
• ifs
• appointment

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own. Richard Cecil

• people
• perfect
• look

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it. Edith Schaeffer

• good
• throw
• ifs

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars. Kris Kristofferson

• trust
• dark
• training

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. Corrie Ten Boom

• hope
• accounting
• waste

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant. John F. Kennedy

• going away
• pain
• kindness

What's the difference between bulimics and anorexics?" I ask. "Anorexics are anorexics all the time," she says, "I'm only bulimic when I'm throwing up." Wow. She sounds just like my dad! "I'm only an alcoholic when I get drunk." There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. Penelope gorges on her pain and then throws it up and flushes it away. My dad drinks his pain away. (107) Sherman Alexie