Top 203 Discarded Quotes & Sayings

From the immediate abandonment of the promise of an extra £350m for the NHS, the history of Brexit is already littered with discarded and unfulfillable promises.

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

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

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

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

Oh, I've discarded a great many [poems]. And occasionally I've discarded and then resurrected. I would find a crumpled yellow ball of paper in the wastebasket, in the morning, and open it to see what the hell I'd been up to; and occasionally it was something that needed only a very slight change to be brought off, which I'd missed the day before.

When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.

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

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

The genius of 'Game of Thrones' is that in this rich imagining of a world redolent of the medieval, the rules of a Middle Ages morality play have been so thoroughly discarded.

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

Knowledge is a burden--once taken up, it can never be discarded.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

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?

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag.

Words that do not create images should be discarded.

There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.

We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.

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

My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.

Cheap electronics are not built to be repaired. They're just used and then discarded.

I was suspended and discarded. I was told to go to hell by administrators. I was placed in classes far beneath my intelligence. I even had a teacher tell me my life was ruined.

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

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

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

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

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

The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.

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?

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

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

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.

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

You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.

The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must.

We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where littering is permissible, even encouraged. In the early stages, the debris left behind includes the grosser sins of commission. Later debris differs; things begin to be discarded which have caused the misuse or underuse of our time and talent.

Today children are disposed of because there is no food or because they are killed before being born – children are discarded. The elderly are disposed of, well, because they are useless, they do not produce, neither children nor the elderly produce; then, with more or less sophisticated systems they are slowly abandoned and now, as in this crisis it is necessary to recover some equilibrium, we are witnessing a third very painful discarding –the discarding of young people. Millions of young people… are discarded from work, are unemployed.

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

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

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

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

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

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.

I think most people live in the past, because current information is discarded or not made available easily.

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

Our myopic focus on producing and consuming as cheaply as possible has created a linear economy in which objects are briefly used and then discarded as waste.

Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded in some circumstances is to advocate that thinking be discarded - which leaves one in the position of attempting to do a job after throwing away the required instrument.

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

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

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

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