Cutting Quotes - Page 19

• From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  School, Firsts, Theory

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• Cold Mountain is hidden in white clouds It's peaceful to be cut off from the busy world I use dry grass for cushions in my mountain home My only light is the round moon My bed is the rock beside the green pool Tigers and deer are my companions I delight in this happy peaceful life Forever beyond the world of men

  Hanshan

  Home, Men, Moon

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• From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife,
  what grain will be saved?
  My son, believe me, nothing remains,
  Only adult toil,
  the furrow of fate in the palm.
  Only toil,
  Nothing more.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Believe, Fate, Son

  "Rescue". Book by Czeslaw Milosz, 1945.

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• A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.

  Wallace Stegner

  Heart, Animal, Political

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• I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline; they are cut off from the sweetest of all ties with their kind - sympathy. ... I will have no evergreens in my garden; when the inevitable winter comes, every beloved plant and favorite tree shall drop together - no solitary fir left to triumph over the companionship of decay.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Spring, Autumn, Winter

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.50

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• That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts.

  Saadi

  People, Pearls, Knaves

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• While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Virginia, Order

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• Seek for a fresh invoice of grace. Unbelief can scoff or growl; faith is the nightingale that sings in the darkest hour. Faith can draw honey out of the rock and oil out of the flint. With Christ in possession and heaven in reversion, it marches to the time of the One-hundred-and-third Psalm over the roughest road, and against the most cutting blast.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Rocks, Oil, Heaven

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 236, 1895.

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• There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.

  Barbara Mertz

  Dream, Ambition, Cheerful

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• Play to win because almost doesn't cut it.

  Ana Monnar

  Winning, Play, Play To Win

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• Anyone can cut an apple open and count the number of seeds. But, who can look at a single seed and count the trees and apples?

  Dottie Walters

  Apples, Numbers, Tree

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• Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Feet, Censorship, Internet

  Letter to N. G. Dufief, 19 Apr. 1814

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• The greatest danger to an adequate old-age security plan is rising prices. A rise of 2% a year in prices would cut the purchasing power of pensions about 45% in 30 years. The greatest danger of rising prices is from wages rising faster than output per man-hour.... Whether the nation succeeds in providing adequate security for retired workers depends in large measure upon the wage policies of trade unions.

  Sumner Slichter

  Men, Years, Rising Prices

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• Work hard. There is no short cut.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Hard Work, Hard, Short Cuts

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• Get a scalpel, and practice just, say, cutting a piece of meat or something like that. You sort of learn how you want to hold your fingers, and that sort of thing, and try to become graceful when you operate.

  Denton Cooley

  Practice, Trying, Meat

  "Denton A. Cooley, M.D. on Preparation". The Academy of Achievement Intreview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need 'regrooving,' I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion.

  George Harrison

  Heart, People, Giving

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• Congress is thinking about eliminating a federal program under which scientists broadcast signals to Alien beings. This would be a large mistake. Alien beings have atomic blaster death cannons. You cannot cut off their federal programs as if they were merely poor people.

  Dave Barry

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  "Dave Barry's Bad Habits". Book by Dave Barry, September 15, 1993.

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• In ancient times, people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much a thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Knives, Two

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami. Chapter Five, "Oshima", 2002.

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• Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've been in, I have to make a concerted effort not to turn it into a comedy. Every shot, before action is called and after cut is called, I'm usually in some goofy head space. It feels natural to me.

  Michael Jai White

  Drama, Thinking, Space

  "Black Dynamite's Michael Jai White and Scott Sanders: The Movieline Interview". Interview with S.T. Vanairsdale, movieline.com. October 14, 2009.

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• Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I think that's a pleasure worth learning as early as possible in one's career, not least because realizing that one can do it helps one relax into writing the first draft in which it's better to have too much material for later shaping than not enough.

  Ramsey Campbell

  Writing, Thinking, Careers

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• Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Fire, Ideas, Toys

  "Athens demands cash reserves from public sector funds" by Katie Allen, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2015.

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• That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.

  Jesse Jackson

  Nuts

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• I have preached God's truth, so far as I know it, and I have not been ashamed of its peculiarities. That I might not stultify my testimony, I have cut myself clear of those who error from the faith, and even from those who associate with them.

  Charles Haddon

  Errors, Might, Ashamed

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• This self-reflection, this willingness to examine ourselves, to make corrections, to do better, that's part of what makes us Americans. It's part of what sets us apart from other nations, the United States is the most professional, most capable, most cutting-edge intelligence community in the world.

  Barack Obama

  Reflection, Self, Community

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• Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.

  Lee Ezell

  Past, Yesterday, Umbilical Cord

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