Substraction Quotes & Sayings

A major part of being prepared is having a plan. Local calls don't always work in the immediate vicinity of a disaster, so it's important to have an out-of-town contact with whom the entire family can check in. — Mike Crapo

I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly. — Terry Pratchett

Did normal people secretly yearn to be deviant? I didn't know, but I could no longer pretend. — Skye Warren

Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death. — Cynthia Ozick

If you look more broadly at injury, so it includes also accidents, it's the largest cause of death in children of school age in Mexico. It's an enormous problem. — Julio Frenk

Take off your coat."
"Excuse me?"
"Take it off."
"No."
"I want it off."
"Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. [Vishous to Jane] — J.R. Ward

The couple that never talk to each other never discover how little they have in common. — Julian Fellowes

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write. — James T. Farrell

It's clear to you immediately that you can have anything you want when you have cancer. — Kelly Corrigan

The owner was this very thin woman who looked sort of bitchy, which, think about it, most very thin women do-even when they smile, it's like grimacing. Fat people are often miserable too, but at least they LOOK jolly even though it's really mostly them apologizing, like, "Sorry, sorry, sorry I'm offending your idea of bodily aesthetics," "Sorry I'm clogging my arteries and giving the thumbs-up to diabetes. — Elizabeth Berg

But that was another Mildred so deep inside this one, and so bothered, really bothered, that the two women had never met. — Ray Bradbury

White can be attained by blending all the colors of the spectrum together, or through the substraction of ink and all other pigments. In short, it is "all colors" and "no color" at the same time. — Kenya Hara

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady. — Eric Alterman

He thought the fear of death was perhaps the root of all art, perhaps also of all things of the mind. We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, as transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do. — Hermann Hesse