Cutting Quotes - Page 20

• It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.

  Toussaint Louverture

  Tree, Liberty, Easy

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• Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole story. Grandparents, in the absence of the social institutions that once demanded civilized behavior, have their work cut out for them. Our grandchildren are hungry for our love and approval, but also for standards being set.

  Eda LeShan

  Grandchildren, Grandparent, Stories

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• I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Time, Hands, Pieces

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• The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Men, Doe, Genius

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

  Taisen Deshimaru

  School, Firsts, Theory

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

  Donald Miller

  Ambition, Stories, Stuff

  Twitter post from Jun 17, 2015

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• A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.

  Horace Walpole

  Shining, Use, Weight

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• The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy that grows, that creates jobs, that generates the money to ensure a properly funded and improving National Health Service ... and a government that will cut taxes for 30 million hard-working people ... or you can choose the economic chaos of Ed Miliband's Britain.

  David Cameron

  Jobs, Party, Health

  "Cameron challenged on Labour claim". www.gazetteandherald.co.uk. March 30, 2015.

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• Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Kings, Young

  Graeme Murray, Jean Michel Basquiat, Fruit Market Gallery (1984). “Poiesis: aspects of contemporary poetic activity”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy....A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger, wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

  Alan Beck

  Boys, Hair, Pockets

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• Christians, of all people, should not be destroyers. We should treat nature with an overwhelming respect. We may cut down a tree to build a house, or to make a fire to keep the family warm. But we should not cut down the tree just to cut down the tree. We may, if necessary, bark the cork tree in order to have the use of the bark. But what we should not do is to bark the tree simply for the sake of doing so, and let it dry and stand there a dead skeleton in the wind. To do so is not to treat the tree with integrity.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Integrity, Order

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• You know that the air and water are being polluted, as is everything we touch and live with, and we go on corrupting the nature that we need. We don't realize we have a commitment to God to take care of nature. To cut down a tree, to waste water when there is so much lack of it, to let buses poison our atmosphere with those noxious fumes from their exhausts, to burn rubbish haphazardly-all that concerns our alliance with God.

  Oscar Romero

  Commitment, Air, Water

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• European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.

  Thomas P. Campbell

  Museums, Government, Pressure

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