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Quotes About Dispense

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.
~ Fanny Kemble
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.
~ Eric Hoffer
Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
~ Nancy Grace
The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.
~ Ellen Key
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
~ George Sand
But Allendy says the need of gestures, of proofs of friendship, love, devotion, comes from lack of confidence. I should not need them, I should be able to dispense with them. Proofs of love and friendship are that I give to others all the time. And everyone seems to need them.
~ Anais Nin
All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
~ John Calvin
The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought, for one would thereby dispense with man himself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Rights have become what the political sovereign or ephemeral master decides to dispense and whatever gratifies the undisciplined cravings and desires of the individual.
~ Russell Kirk
Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.
~ Thomas de Quincey
but maintained that the bishop of Rome had no authority whatever to dispense with the Word of God.
~ John Foxe
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.
~ Bart Gordon
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.
~ Eric Hoffer
Money is easier to dispense than affection, even for the most miserly.
~ Stephen McCauley
To despise riches may, indeed, be philosophic; but to dispense them worthily must, surely, be more beneficial to mankind.
~ Fanny Burney
Pleasure given in society, like money lent in usury, returns with interest to those who dispense it.
~ Fanny Burney
All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
~ John Calvin
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
~ Konrad Lorenz
It seems impossible to dispense with that little word hope, even though at times we are conscious of the pain of hopes too long deferred.
~ Caroline Henderson
He was a Rider. A shadow rider. It was who he was. What he was. A rider no choice but to do what he'd been trained for from the age of two -- even before that. It was in his bones, in his blood, he couldn't live without it. He dispensed justice to those the law couldn't touch.
~ Christine Feehan
Be a love pharmacist: dispense hugs like medicine - they are!
~ Terri Guillemets
And now I am willing to disregard burial-places and dispense with them, And if the memorials of the dead were put up indifferently everywhere, even in the room where I eat or sleep, I should be satisfied.
~ Walt Whitman