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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. — Benjamin Franklin

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination. — Robert Breault

that that wasn't love I was feeling. It was a way to temporarily forget that I was once unloved and so easily discarded. — Michelle A. Valentine

Believe that God discarded you if you want to, fate or destiny or whatever, but at least know they loved you ... — Isaac Marion

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head. — Gautama Buddha

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

He broke off and began to walk u and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Within HTC, hundreds of ideas are tested and discarded to find those rare ideas that define the HTC user experience. — Cher Wang

Most dump kids are believers; maybe you have to believe in something when you see so many discarded things. — John Irving

She made room for the discarded foot on the table, setting it up like a shrine amid the wrenches and lug nuts, before — Marissa Meyer

Knowledge is a burden
once taken up, it can never be discarded. — Stephen R. Lawhead

Words that do not create images should be discarded. — Gerry Spence

A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny. — Michel Faber

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. — Mae West

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art. — Kafu Nagai

Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another, "I want to know why! — Shannon L. Alder

The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown. — Tom Morrison

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing. — Chris Fabry

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. — Claude Debussy

He motions toward my discarded cigarette butt. Littering — J.M. Darhower

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules. — Vernor Vinge

But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day. — Dick Francis

I wished she was a plastic tag strip, easily discarded, the annoyance of her thrown to the floor to be stomped on. — Harlem Dae

The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded. — Wei Wu Wei

It was official. I now wanted to murder a ghost, a notion I'd discarded as unlikely only twenty minutes before. (Cat) — Jeaniene Frost

She discarded whole chunks of life that obsessed other people. She didn't torture people she loved, nor did she hunger for them. She kept it simple. — Ann Brashares

Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity. — Anais Nin

I was returning with myself whole and unbroken - limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance — Amy Tan

On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability. — Theodor Adorno

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things. — Mahatma Gandhi

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered. — Stephen King

The emphasis is on the lost, the abandoned, the discarded sinners, God's detritus. — Julian Barnes

A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded. — Chris Matthews

Women are like bottles of liquor. They should be sampled,
savored, then discarded. Matrimony is for men who can't
handle their liquor. — Gena Showalter

I see so little of you these days; your presence is as rare as that of one's discarded mistress. — Charlie Chaplin

Capital punishment ... treats members of the human race ... as objects to be toyed with and discarded. — William J. Brennan

Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions - not outside. — Marcus Aurelius

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? — Alan Perlis

Is literature better, is politics better, for having discarded the moralist and the philosopher? — G.K. Chesterton

But the past is not an old coat that can be discarded and forgotten. — Nalini Singh

Any dream that I am absolutely confident I can achieve should immediately be discarded for the simple reason that it is simply too small. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored. — Tim Fargo

Scripture is one of many instruments to attain the Goal (experience of pure Soul). How can it be discarded? — Dada Bhagwan

The homely and erotic patters of marriage are not easily discarded. — Ian McEwan

So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies. — Will Self

She leaped away from Villiers the moment the note sounded in the air, sadness falling from her like a discarded cloak. — Eloisa James

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded. — Amy Irving

My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk. — L.P. Hartley

A discarded newspaper skimmed the sidewalk with a sound like the whisperings of a dead lover. — John Connolly

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1. — David Suzuki

Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow. — Shannon L. Alder

Out-of-date theories are not in principle unscientific because they have been discarded. That — Thomas S. Kuhn

I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag. — Steven Morrissey

When I decided to follow my dream, I had already discarded my life.

~ Zoro ~ — Eiichiro Oda

Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor. — Haile Selassie

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves. — John Ashbery

How different would our perception of reality be if ... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams? — Robin Hobb

Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly. — Robert Breault

I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance I had carried around like my portable vanity with its broken mirror. — Amy Tan

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward. — Jonah Lehrer

I look forward to the day the cross sits discarded beside the swastika as just another reminder of the dangers of blind faith. — Craig Smith

There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded. — Spiro T. Agnew

I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind. — Haruki Murakami

Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method. — Bernard Lown

Many, many mantles are worn - or discarded - on Halloween night, wizard. — Jim Butcher

The titles are born, worn, discarded, forgotten, and none of them matter. — George R R Martin

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. — Thomas A. Edison

A flaw does not make a man worthless," Raphael had once said to Dmitri. "Else I would've been discarded long ago. — Nalini Singh

Those who ask 'What was God doing before he made heaven and earth?' are still steeped in error which they should have discarded. — Augustine Of Hippo

Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith. — William Shakespeare

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover. — John Pople

Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it. — Dave Rowntree

Elegance is achieved when, having discarded all superfluous things, we discover simplicity and concentration. — Paulo Coelho

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead — Gelett Burgess

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? — Arthur C. Clarke

Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded. — Sandra Steingraber

We'd lived our lives thinking that there was a special way of living for people who had been discarded. — Tetsuo Miura

we lived depravity
and called it truth, silencing
our dreaming, and
our love, discarding
things holy. — John Daniel Thieme

Alas, words were but empty things, devoid of power and all too easily broken, discarded, and forgotten. — Stephen R. Lawhead