Dump Quotes - Page 5

• I will not vote for a candidate who thinks you can 'pray away the gay,' I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that he has more rights to my uterus than I do, I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that it's okay to dump toxic waste in the ocean.

  Sophia Bush

  Ocean, Gay, Thinking

  "Sophia Bush disappointed in Obama, scared of GOP field" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. January 17, 2012.

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• We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason." "And—?" "And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them.

  Sherwood Smith

  Ocean, Jason, Ransom

  Sherwood Smith (2008). “The Trouble with Kings”, p.79, Samhain Publishing

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• But if your boyfriend, out of nowhere and with no advance warning whatsoever, dumps you for no apparent reason, is it really about you? Or is it all him?

  Susane Colasanti

  Your Boyfriend, Warning, Reason

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.12, Penguin

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• The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded and disbursed only when absolutely necessary. The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in Hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lonely, Truth, Lying

  1922 Prejudices, 3rd series, ch.14.

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• When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house - when you can empty a handful of springs and wheels and screws on my desk, and let me see them gather themselves together into a watch - it will be easier for me to believe that all these thousands of worlds could have been created, balanced, and set to moving in their separate orbits, all without any directing intelligence at all.

  Bruce Barton

  Spring, Believe, Moving

  Masonic News, Volume 8, p. 181, 1927.

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• So the big question is, "Well, do I just dump all those unwanted things and try to start fresh?" And we say, no. You just set the Tone, where you are, by looking for things to appreciate. And by setting your Tone in a very clear deliberate way, anything that doesn't match it gravitates out of your experience, and anything that does match it gravitates into your experience. It is so much simpler than most of you are allowing yourself to believe.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Appreciation

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• Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

  "Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes".

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• When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Memorable, Heart

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• Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests are heavily impacted or gone yet their destruction continues. An estimated 50,000 species are driven to extinction each year. We dump millions of tonnes of chemicals, most untested for their biological effects, and many highly toxic, into air, water and soil. We have created an ecological holocaust. Our very health and survival are at stake, yet we act as if we have plenty of time to respond.

  David Suzuki

  Ocean, Air, Years

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• Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.

  Bill McKibben

  Business, Fuel, Waste

  "Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben, www.rollingstone.com. July 19, 2012.

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• Almost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you're a nun. Jesus can't dump nuns.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Jesus, Lifetime, Nun

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• Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap dancing and vocabulary dumps that get in the way of the story you are telling. Once you accept that, what are you left with? You are left with the story you are telling.
  The story you are telling is only as good as the information in it: things you elicit, or things you observe, that make a narrative come alive; things that support your point not just through assertion, but through example; quotes that don’t just convey information, but also personality.

  Gene Weingarten

  Writing, Vocabulary, Dancing

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• You can't dump one cup of sugar into the ocean and expect to get syrup. If everybody sweetened her own cup of water, then things would begin to change.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Ocean, Water, Cups

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• You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me out of the story. I’m the plot, babe, and don’t ever forget it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Rivers, Feet, Twists

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Good Bones and Simple Murders”, p.11, Nan A. Talese

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• I have witnessed boards that continued to waste money on doomed projects because no one was prepared to admit they were failures, take the blame and switch course. Smaller outfits are more willing to admit mistakes and dump bad ideas.

  Luke Johnson

  Mistake, Failure, Learning

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• I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours.

  Stephanie Klein

  Health, Knowing, Live In The Moment

  Stephanie Klein (2009). “Moose: A Memoir”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• Let us not turn schools into dumps when we go out and vote on Monday.

  Ramon Paje

  Monday, School, Vote

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• Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Speech, Way, Garbage

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1214, Delphi Classics

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• Some logics get nervous breakdowns. Overloaded phone system behaves like frightened child. Mike did not have upsets, acquired sense of humor instead. Low one. If he were a man, you wouldn't dare stoop over. His idea of thigh-slapper would be to dump you out of bed — or put itch powder in pressure suit.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Children, Men, Phones

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• I've decided to call him Norbert,' said Hagrid, looking at the dragon with misty eyes. 'He really knows me now, watch. Norbert! Norbert! Where's Mummy?' 'He's lost his marbles,' Ron muttered in Harry's ear. 'Hagrid,' said Harry loudly, 'give it a fortnight and Norbert's going to be as big as your house. Malfoy could go to Dumbledore at any moment. Hagrid bit his lip. 'I- I know I can't jus' dump him, I can't.' Harry suddenly turned to Ron. 'Charlie,' he said. 'You're losing it too,' said Ron. 'I'm Ron, remember?

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Dragons, Giving

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• If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.

  Sylvia Earle

  Yards, Lasts, Damage

  "Her Deepness" by Wallace White, www.newyorker.com. July 3, 1989.

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• Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.

  Al Gore

  Today, Environmental Pollution, Air Quality

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• I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Responsibility, Thinking, Guy

  "Among the wild things" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2000.

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• This sounds like a brag, but I know how to make good fried rice. I learned in college. There are two secrets - take the rice after you cook it and let it get cold in the fridge. Then cook the egg like you're making a fried egg and just before it's done, dump the rice and veg on it and swirl it around.

  Patton Oswalt

  College, Eggs, Two

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• it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom

  Paul Auster

  Life, Hands, Ideas

  Paul Auster (2008). “The Brooklyn Follies”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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