Words matter. These are the best Dispense Quotes from famous people such as Edith Hamilton, Tina Brown, John B. S. Haldane, Francis Spufford, Freda Adler, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet ‘professorial,’ he does it by being, well, more professorial.
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending – pretending that might as well be systematic, it’s so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
For starters, let’s dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg – sorry – for a good book on the subject, or similar tasteless – sorry, again – attempts to make the subject more palatable – last one.
I do not mind if a PM or leader of the opposition is single but if he or she chooses to dispense with marriage despite living with someone and having children, then I think that shows a contempt for marriage which sends an unfortunate message.
I’m not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I’ve done wonders for the feminist movement.
Here’s a startling fact: in the 45 years since the introduction of the automated teller machine, those vending machines that dispense cash, the number of human bank tellers employed in the United States has roughly doubled, from about a quarter of a million to a half a million.
I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!
If we dispense with some of our self-made boundaries, India can really take its place in the world as an economic power. It hasn’t happened because we, sadly, don’t look at ourselves as Indians but as Punjabis or Parsis, unlike the Americans. Don’t make such boundaries.
I’m a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
I am contracting continually a debt of gratitude which time will never see canceled. There is a treasury from which it will be repaid, but I do not dispense its stores.
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
I meet young people all the time who say something like, ‘I want to work in venture capital.’ And I can see why. Who wouldn’t want to be smart, well-paid, dispense large sums of money, and tell people what to do?
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action – the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
Limited points of view let the writer dispense – and the reader gather – information from various corners of the story. It all becomes a kind of dance, with the writer guiding the reader through the various twists and turns. The challenge is keeping readers in step, while still managing to surprise.
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
It wouldn’t sit easily on one’s conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let’s dispense these drugs.
An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is.
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
I’m honest and fair, but I don’t dispense false kindness.
