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Quotes About Elimination

One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.
~ Robert Townsend
if something made a man feel bad then he must determine what about it troubled him, and eliminate that. Simply to suffer the discomforts of guilt did not indicate a man had improved himself, only that he suspected he harbored a fault.
~ Robin Hobb
A true priest of Sa had little use for guilt. It but obscured; if something made a man feel bad then he must determine what about it troubled him, and eliminate that. Simply to suffer the discomforts of guilt did not indicate a man had improved himself, only that he suspected he harbored a fault.
~ Robin Hobb
Learn everything that existed in the universe, and whatever was left, that dwarfish-man-shaped hole in the center, would be him by process of elimination.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Whitman explicitly grounded this prescription in racism: "The nigger, like the Injun, will be eliminated; it is the law of the races, history.… A superior grade of rats come and then all the minor rats are cleared out." The whole world would benefit from US expansion: "We pant to see our country and its rule far-reaching. What has miserable, inefficient Mexico … to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?
~ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.
~ Charles Bukowski
In politica, caro mio, lo sapete quanto me, non ci sono uomini, ma idee; non sentimenti, ma interessi; in politica non si uccide un uomo: si elimina un ostacolo, ecco tutto.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.
~ Joe Haldeman
Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.
~ Joe Haldeman
On England's elimination from the 2002 World Cup after losing 2-1 to Brazil] The dressing room was like a morgue. Nobody moved, nobody spoke. The players were traumatized. They had a glimpse of immortality and let it slip. Some might get the chance to redeem themselves, others - notably Seaman - certainly wouldn't. From Sven-Goran Eriksson: The Final Reckoning
~ Joe Lovejoy
We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.
~ Joe Manchin
Life is the elimination of what is dead.
~ Wallace Stevens
Earth is 98 percent full. Please delete anyone you can.
~ Anonymous
What was certain, though, is that sheer good luck—the untimely elimination
~ Anthony Everitt
But at the same time I recalled something Holmes had said to me many times, namely that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
~ Anthony Horowitz
I support the elimination and defunding of all agencies like the Education and Energy Departments because they fall outside of the framework of the Constitution.
~ Darryl Glenn
Urine and feces are processed in the thigh pads
~ Frank Herbert
Fino ad oggi gli uomini e le loro opere sono stati un flagello per i pianeti. La natura reagisce ai flagelli: li elimina o li assorbe per incorporarli nel suo sistema.
~ Frank Herbert
In the playoffs, it's win or go home. You might not have a chance to look back at a game and say, 'Man, we didn't box out here.'
~ Scottie Pippen
At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.
~ Michel Patini
Thanks to malaria elimination efforts in United States in the 1940s, most people in the U.S. today have never had any direct contact with the disease, and most doctors have never seen a case. That success means it's easy to have a relaxed attitude about protecting ourselves.
~ Tom Frieden
mas pode entrar no ânimo do governo eliminar a loucura? Não. E se o governo não a pode eliminar, está ao menos apto para discriminá-la, reconhecê-la? Também não; é matéria de Ciência.
~ Machado de Assis
The analysis is androcentric in the extreme; but still, the story does suggest that the repulsion is not simply deserved by its victims. The repulsion, Tolstoy insists, requires scrutiny and, ultimately, disavowal; the sex act that causes it needs to be eliminated. The radical social change demanded by Tolstoy in this story-the end of intercourse-is a measured repudiation of gynocide: in order not to kill women, he said, we must stop fucking them.
~ Andrea Dworkin
It is obvious that politics would gain much in prestige if the money-raising campaign were conducted candidly and publicly, like the campaigns for the war funds. Charity drives might be made excellent models for political funds drives. The elimination of the little black bag element in politics would raise the entire prestige of politics in America, and the public interest would be infinitely greater if the actual participation occurred earlier and more constructively in the campaign.
~ Edward L. Bernays