Minus Quotes

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. (George Orwell)
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. View quote
A. A. Milne
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. View quote
Susan Sontag
Life minus love equals zero. View quote
Rick Warren
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. View quote
Emma Goldman
Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is. View quote
Bob Black
Literature is the question minus the answer. View quote
Roland Barthes
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! View quote
Lewis Black
Think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it. View quote
Philip Pullman
The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground. (Marshall McLuhan)
For instance, the blood of hibernating arctic squirrels may supercool to minus 3 degrees, when it would normally congeal. The supercooled blood still flows, since it remains a liquid, but the slightest disturbance will cause it to freeze, killing the squirrel; therefore, you should not disturb hibernating arctic squirrels. View quote
João Magueijo
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. View quote
John Stuart Mill
I swear, sometimes I am convinced my life is just a series of sketches for America's Funniest Home Videos, minus all that pants-dropping business. Except my life really isn't all that funny if you think about it. View quote
Meg Cabot
I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down. View quote
Rick Riordan
No more Lastrygonians.” Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep. View quote
Rick Riordan
Happiness is your original nature, it is YOU, minus your neurosis. View quote
Robert Holden
We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts. View quote
Suze Orman
If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better. View quote
Galen Rowell
I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships. View quote
Tracy McMillan
When we view nature stripped to essentials, so to speak, in this Unification Table, what we see is... a five bit register. ...It is in just this form that data is stored and manipulated within a digital computer. ...Every particle, then, can be specified by a five-bit word and stored in a five-bit register. It's eerie that even the odd restriction on how many minus signs are allowed is reminiscent of a trick used in computers, to detect errors in transmission. You see, if allowed words must have an odd number of minus signs, any single error in transmission of a word can be detected. ...our world might be an intricate program working itself out on a gigantic computing machine. (Frank Wilczek)
More generally, Schumpeter seemed to be playing the role of grand seigneur, and he tended to flatter where flattery was not due, no doubt satirically. All this went along with his reputation as a casual and easy grader. We used to say that he threw the exam books up a staircase: the ones that stuck at the top got an A, the ones that fell to the bottom an A minus. I was surprised to learn that in Austrian universities he had the reputation of a stern taskmaster. View quote
Robert Solow
M. Comte's philosophy, in practice, might be compendiously described as Catholicism minus Christianity. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Here we must make one of those inductive applications of the law of continuity which have produced such great results in all of the positive sciences. We must extend the law of insistency into the future. Plainly, the insistency of a future idea with reference to the present is a quantity affected by the minus sign; for it is the present that affects the future, if there be any effect, not the future that affects the present. View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
I'm a holy man minus the holiness. View quote
E. M. Forster