Minus Quotes - Page 4

And since I’m marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you’re sleeping with Laurel—” “I’m not sleeping with Laurel. We’re dating.” “Right, and the two of you are just going to hold hands, admire the moon, and sing camp songs.” “For a while. Minus the singing.

Nora Roberts

Song, Sleep, Moon

Nora Roberts (2010). “Savor the Moment”, p.89, Penguin

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Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Squares, Roots, World

Yevgeny Zamyatin “We”, Two-Gunner Pulp Press

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And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Mistake, Desire, Prejudice

Yevgeny Zamyatin “We”, Two-Gunner Pulp Press

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I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down.

Rick Riordan

Horse, Flying, Sound

Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage.

John Green

Thinking, Opposites, Forever

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.16, Penguin

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Minus my relationship with Kennedy, I had no automatic invitation to Greek Parties or events, though Chaz and Erin could invite me to some stuff since I fell under the heading of acceptable things to bring to any party: alcohol and girls. Awesome. I'd gone from independent girlfriend to party paraphernalia.

Tammara Webber

Girl, Party, Independent

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A person’s life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they’re actually willing to sacrifice for it.

Craig Clevenger

Sacrifice, Stories, World

Craig Clevenger (2005). “The Contortionist's Handbook”

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I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

Winston Churchill

Math, Feelings, Let It Go

Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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...as it turned out, growing up was just as she'd feared. One day when your alarm clock rang, you got up and realized you had someone else's thoughts in your head... or may be just your old ones, minus the hope.

Jodi Picoult

Growing Up, One Day, Alarms

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Recognizing happiness when it's lying at your feet, having the will and courage to reach down and take it in your arms--and to hold on to it--that's the heart's intelligence. Intelligence minus the heart is just logic, and that doesn't amount to much. - Arthur

Marc Levy

Lying, Heart, Feet

Marc Levy (2005). “If Only It Were True”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction Ella said

Rick Riordan

Zero, Six, Subtraction

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Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.

Lawrence Durrell

Fall, Snow, Bird

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I swear, sometimes I am convinced my life is just a series of sketches for America's Funniest Home Videos, minus all that pants-dropping business. Except my life really isn't all that funny if you think about it.

Meg Cabot

Home, Thinking, America

Meg Cabot (2009). “The Mediator #2: Ninth Key”, p.21, Harper Collins

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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 a minus one: actively harmful, someone who creates problems. Or as a zero: your impact is neutral and doesn't tip the balance one way or the other. Or you'll be seen as a plus one: someone who actively adds value. Everyone wants to be a plus one, of course. But proclaiming your plus-oneness at the outset almost guarantees you'll be perceived as a minus one, regardless of the skills you bring to the table or how you actually perform.

Chris Hadfield

Zero, Impact, Skills

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What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your clothes, doing the Big Deed.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Class, Clothes, Deeds

Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money.

Robert Crandall

Airline Business, People, Airline

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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

Want, Usury, Limits

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The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.

Stephen Hawking

Powerful, Cooking, Bangs

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Life minus love equals zero.

Rick Warren

Zero, Purpose Driven Life

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If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.

Paul Krugman

Simple, Errors, Years

Paul Krugman (2010). “The Accidental Theorist: And Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mean, Class, Humanity

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Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

Henry Ford

Men, Machines, Slave

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It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in acidents or altercations, while others skate through the years with nothing worse to worry about than an occassional bad-hair day. I still possessed both legs and both eyes, and even my hair looked all right when I rose that Wednesday morning in late January. If I returned to bed sixteen hours later, having lost all my hair but nothing else, I would consider the day a triumph. Even minus a few teeth, I'd call it a triumph.

Dean Koontz

Morning, Eye, Journey

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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 of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be.

Arthur Balfour

Life, Real, Work

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In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is equalized with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct. But that's in the long run. We must live in the short run and matters are often unjust there. The compensating for us of the universe makes all the accounts come out even, but they grind down the good as well as the wicked in the process.

Michael Connelly

Running, Long, Wicked

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