Top 205 Minus Quotes & Sayings

“One Minus One’”and “Barcelona, 1975” are more or less autobiographical.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

Progress is measured by milestones. What many good people lack are markers that might tell them how they are actually doing. Goals can become a ritual or a fetish, but in the right measure they can give us some much needed reference points. No wonder some seem discouraged! Minus such milestones, we often feel minus in our lives

Happiness is equal to work minus resistance.

Im not really Type A, but A minus.

There are always pluses and minus to commercialization. It broadcasts something to the masses. So that's the plus. The minus is it may lose some of its meaning if you dilute it.

Impression minus expression leads to spiritual depression.

And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus.

The categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood.

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason

Bear in mind the simple rule, X squared to the power of two minus five over the seven point eight three times nineteen is approximately equal to the cube root of MCC squared divided by X minus a quarter of a third percent. Keep that in mind, and you can't go very far wrong.

The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.

Television opens up some bloody great doors. That's the plus. The minus is the attention it brings.

The human body is not designed for swimming in minus 1.7 degree centigrade water.

In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways. As a minus one: actively harmful, someone who creates problems. Or as a zero: your impact is neutral and doesn't tip the balance one way or the other. Or you'll be seen as a plus one: someone who actively adds value. Everyone wants to be a plus one, of course. But proclaiming your plus-oneness at the outset almost guarantees you'll be perceived as a minus one, regardless of the skills you bring to the table or how you actually perform.

What's a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy

At 3, I played an innocent game of doctor, minus the stethoscope and medicine bag.

I never really feel old. Young 'til I die, minus some Internet-speak misunderstandings.

They've gotta stop reporting wind chill. That's nonsense. It really is. I don't know where they came up with it, why they came up with it, but it's a lie. They come on, "Well, it's 27 degrees today, but with the wind chill, it's minus 3." Well, then it's minus 3, asshole! I don't need to know what the weather was like if the conditions were perfect!

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem. Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]

In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to minus or from minus to plus or the price and quantity of x or y, the direction of historical movement can be reversed.

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

Ben Roethlisberger is Tim Tebow minus Jesus.

And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us better.] To electrise plus or minus, no more needs to be known than this, that the parts of the Tube or Sphere, that are rubb'd, do, in the Instant of Friction, attract the Electrical Fire, and therefore take it from the Thin rubbing; the same parts immediately, as the Friction upon them ceases, are disposed to give the fire they have received, to any Body that has less.

There's always the question of time. Does time at 10:00 mean 10:00 sharp? Or does it mean give or take a few minutes? And a few minutes, is that plus or minus two minutes? Or plus or minus ten, or maybe a half an hour each way?

Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.

I'm not really Type A, but A minus.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.

Life minus love equals zero.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

A person’s life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they’re actually willing to sacrifice for it.

We create ying and yang, yes and no, plus and minus.

Advertising is much like war, minus the venom

I consider myself a B-minus mom. I think I would be considered an A-plus dad.

'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.

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Nevada Energy doesn't lose money. The gaming industry loses money. It employs all the people. It pays all the taxes. And if you take the P&L, the profit and loss, of the hotels in Las Vegas and Reno, it is a number that is minus, not plus, minus.

I don't socialise. My social life is minus zero.

It's up to the UFC, but I'll fight whomever, whenever. Minus maybe Vegas.

Share prices follow the theorem: hope divided by fear minus greed.

I think, in fact, there's a plus and a minus to knowing my prior work, Happiness and so forth. The plus is of course you can see how I play with the characters, the storylines, and the way things play off each other. And the minus is that it makes you a little bit more self-conscious, that you're not able to enter the movie as it exists and lives and breathes, because you're so busy making references, connections that you're not able to release yourself from and take the film on your own terms.

I am like Hugh Hefner minus anything good about his life.

Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Intuition is a heart message minus the static.

It doesn't matter what the weather is like - even if it's minus 10 I will go out there and fish.

George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.

Be grateful. Find something to be grateful for. Don't do too many things that make you feel like you deserve to lose because we do program our own computers. I believe there is a plus and a minus column and if you end up on the minus column, your own conscience will make you lose.

A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money.

Faith minus vulnerability is fundamentalism

Hip hop minus plugged sounds can be a very different experience.