Cutting Quotes - Page 3

• Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

  John Owen

  Exercise, Men, Knives

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• There is no short cut to acheivement.

  George Washington Carver

  Short Cuts

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• The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

  Jerry Brown

  Jobs, Stupid, Opposites

  "The Revolt Against Liberal Orthodoxy" by David Harsanyi, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 11, 2010.

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• The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I’m out there on the basketball court.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Ego

  "Kobe Bryant On The Black Mamba". Interview with Benjamin Clymer, www.askmen.com. June 11, 2009.

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  Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

  George Burns

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

  Quoted in Life, Dec. 1979

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• A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

  Chanakya

  Integrity, People, Tree

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• I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Funny, Sarcastic, Dark

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Drama, Writing, Life Is Short

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Vegetables, Interesting

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life/Social Studies”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

  Ocean, Sea, World

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”

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• In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Running, Believe

  Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

  Jonathan Swift

  Money, Shoes, Feet

  Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711)

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• Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

  Zach Wamp

  Republican, Economy, Program

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• Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

  Huey Lewis

  Song, Today, Tempting

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• When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

  Betty Dodson

  Honesty, People, Information

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• We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.

  Jaclyn Smith

  Hands, Years, Style

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• There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

  Wangari Maathai

  Country, Tree, Culture

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• To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it's actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami.

  Mario Batali

  Pigs, May, Strange

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January, 2004.

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• I'm a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I'm an old guy.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Guy, Training, Nutrition

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• We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.

  Dave Obey

  Needs, Cost, Care

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• If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Want, Iron Lady, Throat

  1986 Comment to Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, when he pressed for sanctions against South Africa. Quoted in Time, 7 Jul.

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• A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

  Rebecca West

  Strong, Hate, Dark

  Rebecca West, Jane Marcus (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, New York : Viking Press

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• Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

  Henry Ford

  Business, Competition, Cost

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• There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Size, Elements

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• You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.

  Wovoka

  Mother, Native American, Knives

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