Rid Quotes

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you.

The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.

There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties.

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.

I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.

Just performing is where I'm happiest, and gets me rid of my troubles and worries.

Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

She divorced me August 10 of 2000, but she never was able to completely get rid of me. Don't ask me why.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.

In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.

Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him.

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution, not to just say we're going to trim around the edges, not to say that we will try to simplify a little of this and a little of that. The problem is, replace the tax code, so we can establish tax fairness for everybody.

The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.

I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

I don't believe any person looking for work is fearful of political judgment. Government is a large institution, and if they believe that people are going to get rid of good employees for political reasons, that's absurd.

I've got a lot of folks who want to get rid of TSA, a bunch of them.