142 Throwing Away Quotes

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Famous Throwing Away Quotes

The best throw of the dice is to throw them away. - English Proverbs

The best throw of the dice is to throw them away. — English Proverbs

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry. — Pope Francis

When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away. — Mitch Hedberg

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling. — Neil LaBute

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap. — Ira Glass

No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out. — Pol Pot

This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules. — Kehinde Wiley

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself. — Phil Crosby

Time to toss the dice — Robert Jordan

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. - Ken Thompson

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. — Ken Thompson

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. — George Sand

The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize. - Shigeo Shingo

The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize. — Shigeo Shingo

You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them. — Isabel Allende

If people realized someone would be sorting through their trash, would they be more careful in what they throw away? — Cam'ron

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away? — James Lee Burke

Short Throwing Away Quotes

  • Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out. — Samuel Johnson
  • Pouring out liquor is like burning books. — William Faulkner
  • Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew. — Lauren DeStefano
  • One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. — Anonymous
  • One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time. — Sean Covey
  • Don't throw out the old pot until you have the tinker makes a new one. — Zimbabwean Proverbs
  • Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto. — Socrates
  • Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. — Peace Pilgrim
  • Nowadays music is as disposable as a McDonald's wrapper. — Jeff Beck
  • If you do not fling old ideas out of your mind, you cannot give birth to new ones. — Peter Deunov

Top 10 Throwing Away Quotes

Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it. — Adrian Rogers

Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard. — Jentezen Franklin

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars. — Vladimir Nabokov

Blow up your TV...throw away your paper...move to the country and build you a home. Plant a little garden...eat a lot of peaches...try and find Jesus on your own. — John Prine

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant. — John F. Kennedy

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. — Chuck Palahniuk

Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don't know the answer. — Jennifer Doudna

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy. — Adam Osborne

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall. — Roald Dahl

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. — Nhat Hanh

Throwing Away Image Quotes

Throwing away quote A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.

Throwing Away Friendship Quotes

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage. — Samuel Johnson

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away. — Sophocles

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations. — Dr. James Dobson

Throwing away quote Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the one
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw of the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in you sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

I'm not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow. — Billy Connolly

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations. — James Dobson

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away. — Arthur Golden

Throwing Away Something Good Quotes

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like — John Zorn

I don't mind throwing something away. It should be your best or it should be what you want people to hear and something that's good for people. — Matt Corby

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else. — Edwin Catmull

Throwing away quote Anything that immobilizes you, gets in your way of keeps you from your goals is all yours. You can t
Anything that immobilizes you, gets in your way of keeps you from your goals is all yours. You can throw it away anytime you choose.

There are cases where you design something that looks good on paper and there's only one small part of it that's fun. You have to focus on that and throw the rest away. — Brent Iverson

If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them. — Robert Ruark

When something needs to be ironed I put it in the ironing basket. If a year goes by and the item is still in the basket I throw the item away. This is a good system since eventually I end up only with clothes that don’t need ironing. — Janet Evanovich

Throwing Your Life Away Quotes

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. — Stephen Hawking

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away. — Steve Jobs

Throwing away quote I just wonna throw my phone away, find out who is really there for me
I just wonna throw my phone away, find out who is really there for me

Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off somewhere else! ...just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are. — Kabir

You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith. — Greg Behrendt

You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane) — Cassandra Clare

If you throw away all thoughts of attainment, you will then come to see the real purpose of your quest. — Seungsahn

At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived. — Nicole Krauss

Throw away those little pieces of paper. Get yourself a big, beautiful canvas. Bring from this nature the most beautiful colors. Find the serene scene within. Find the joy in each corner of your life. Sit still and feel what is within you. Sit still and paint like you have never painted before. — Prem Rawat

You may think you don't want to throw your life away for mere fleeting euphoria. But, once you get a taste, it doesn't feel so mere. From then on the planet becomes a waiting room. The rest of your life devolves to no more than the time between highs. — Jerry Stahl

Throwing Love Away Quotes

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use. — Mother Teresa

We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it. — C. S. Lewis

If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. — Stephen Hawking

If we could throw away the hate and make love last another day, don't give up just for today, life would be so simple — Demi Lovato

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to turn it all around or throw it all away. We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say.. Gotta live like we’re dying — Kris Allen

My heart to you is given: Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key. — Arthur Frederick Saunders

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements. — Mary Schmich

Life's funny chucklehead. You only get one and you don't want to throw it away. But you can't really live it at all unless you're willing to give it up for the things you love. If you're not at least willing to die for something-something that really matters-in the end you die for nothing. — Andrew Klavan

The Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. But if you vote for them you're throwing your vote away. — Rick Mercer

But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay — John Buchan

Throwing Things Away Quotes

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain

When you are doing one thing - talking on your phone, texting, whatever - you are automatically not doing something else. What is the greatest scarcity in the world today? It's not oil. It's time. Time is precious. Don't throw it away. — Martin Cooper

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use. — Mother Theresa

The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just be about recycling things to give them a second life. We should also be gathering up people and giving them a second chance. — Van Jones

We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good, in the hands of those who use them properly. — Clement of Alexandria

Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one. — Tom Waits

Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are. — Kabir

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is. — Kurt Vonnegut

Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he's got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness. — Ajahn Chah

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. — Oscar Wilde

Throwing Someone Away Quotes

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else. — Madeleine L'Engle

In today's disposable culture, we throw away people like we do razors, always assuming there's someone better out there to hang out with, or to work for- people who will never embarrass us, let us down or offend us. — Kelly Cutrone

So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare. — David Dinkins

Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe. — Bradford Cox

I once heard someone say that prayer is more than words. It's a stance you take, a position you claim. You throw your body against the door to keep the demons from advancing and stay put until they go away. — Regina Brett

Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the point in having a self? It's like someone handing you a leaflet which says throw this leaflet away. — Tibor Fischer

I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away. — Andrew Stanton

I can't live my life happily knowing you're with someone else. That would kill a part of me. What we have is rare. it's too beautiful to just throw it away. — Nicholas Sparks

There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch out nine rows of fourteen squares each. Then throw the piece of paper away and find whoever is screaming so you can help them. It is no time to fiddle with paper. — Daniel Handler

I envied it; not the idea of having so much money that you could throw it away, but the thought of growing up in a world where someone cared so much about your happiness and so little about what you accomplished in life. — Kelley Armstrong

Using And Throwing Quotes

Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument - Ratan Tata

Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument — Ratan Tata

When someone throws trash on you, shake it off, stomp on it, and use it to rise to the top! — John Hagee

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it. — Marcus Aurelius

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters. — Cassandra Clare

Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. — Dalai Lama

In football you need to have everything in your cake mix to make the cake taste right. One little bit of ingredient that Tony uses in his cake that gets talked about all the time is Rory's throw. Call that cinnamon and he's got a cinnamon flavoured cake. — Ian Holloway

Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency. — William Shakespeare

I use really crazy subject matter, like all of those pictures of me throwing up and cutting myself, it's to make people think rather than be so mediocre. Instead of just seeing another girl with implants, I want to have meaning to what I do. — Jeffree Star

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain. — Dan Quisenberry

I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does. — Bo Jackson

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More Throwing Away Quotes

Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time. — Ronald Reagan

When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain. Put the time in. Hear your mistakes. Yeah, it sucks, it's humbling, it makes you want to throw the guitar out the window. But if you work on your mistakes, they'll eventually go away, and you'll become a strong player. — John Petrucci

The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies. — Roman Abramovich

I grew up in a very religious family, so that was never going to leave me. I just accepted it over the years. Although I'm not religious myself, it is so much a part of me. It's a part of my history, a part of my tradition and my culture, so I don't want to just throw it away and leave it behind, because it's made me who I am today. — Brendon Urie

We don't ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more. What if all the world should embrace this Gospel? They would then see eye to eye, and the blessings of God would be poured out upon the people, which is the desire of my whole soul. — Joseph Smith, Jr.

Now, revealing that you're a keeper is no guarantee that this guy won't just walk away. Some men really are just sport fishing and have no intention of doing anything more than throwing back the women they bed. If this is the cae with this man, then let him walk-what do you care? He's not the guy you're looking for. — Steve Harvey

Don’t throw away dirty water before you have more clean water. — Danish Proverbs

Actually, the father of mixed martial arts, if you will, was Bruce Lee. If you look at the way Bruce Lee trained, the way he fought, and many of the things he wrote, he said the perfect style was no style. You take a little something from everything. You take the good things from every different discipline, use what works, and you throw the rest away. — Dana White

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. — Charles Caleb Colton

In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows. — Woody Allen

Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself. — Swami Vivekananda

Baby, I ain't trash. Trash is something you throw away. My people keep me. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives. — George Verwer

When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking. — Alexis Lichine

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away. — Helen Dunmore

You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart. The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses. If you win for thirty days in a row, that makes no difference if on the thirty-first you have a bad night, go crazy, and throw it all away. — Bobby Baldwin

If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you'll only have to throw away the first three pages. — William Campbell Gault

I’m serious about it, and I want to spend my money wise. I’m not going to throw away any money. — Giannis Antetokounmpo

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. — Swedish Proverbs

An apple a day keeps anyone away, if you throw it hard enough. — Stephen Colbert

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