Adding Quotes

I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.
Mitch Hedberg

Words, Last, Joke

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison

Life, Nature, Humanity

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
Pope John Paul II

Experience, Away, Rather

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Thomas Fuller

Fire, Away, Taking

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
Wendell Berry

Good, Bad, Past

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Experience, Acting, Question

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
Allen Klein

Humor, Attitude, Try

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Conscience, Nobody, Marvelous

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
David Herbert Lawrence

Religion, Together, Seems

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.
Edward Hopper

Funny, Business, Help

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Hate, End, Worth

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
John Stuart Mill

Great, Power, Government

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don't cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That's going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.
Michelle Obama

Time, Money, Parents

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Joy, Liberty, Secret

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.
Henry Louis Gates

Family, Experience, American

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
Federico Fellini

Silence, Confusion, Speech

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Mary Pickford

Movies, Sound, Lipstick

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
Clara Barton

Happiness, Selfish, Evil

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Life, Courage, Greatest

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it.
Richard Branson

Love, Fun, Able

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
Martha Beck

Keep, Whole, Until

You can easily put together your own favorite spice blend, whether that's a salt and pepper mixture or you're adding herbs to it or Creole spice. Just watch out for the sodium content. That why I encourage you to make your own.
Emeril Lagasse

Together, Why, Put

You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.
Jeff Bezos

Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over the years. And now, I'll be adding a little bit of a lighter touch to some of these wonderful dishes.
Paula Deen

Family, Wonderful, Touch

Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an edge to your resume. If you blog consistently it shows your dedication, passions and creativity - all of which are key attributes employers look for in job candidates.
Lauren Conrad

Great, Job, Creativity

After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.
Mitch McConnell

Money, Business, Small

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
Eugenio Montale

Music, Poetry, Born

You don't extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water.
Pope Shenouda III

Fire, Water, Extinguish

My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.
Nathan Fillion

Hard, Brain, Old

I thought it was possible that O.J. could have done something. It crossed my mind. I was thinking about the events of everything and going, Why did I hear that? I was going, No, it can't be, and just all that stuff was adding up.
Kato Kaelin

Mind, Thinking, Everything

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