#discard

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

— Benjamin Franklin

#each #good #habit #make #might

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. ↗

— George Washington

#cure #discard #error #expect #experience

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#both #canvas #discards #everything #forgets

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made. ↗

— Amy Vanderbilt

#compromises #discarded #etiquette #field #find

I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#african americans #am #being #count #discarded

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy. ↗

— Chanakya

#attached #attachment #be happy #discard #experiences

That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them. ↗

— James Gunn

#approach #build #certainly #child #content

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#american #american idea #cannot #country #discarded

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#discard #grown-up #his #ideals #learns

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#am #crowned #discarded #discontinued #efforts