Cutting Quotes - Page 34

• Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to.

  Robert Anthony

  Worry, Overcoming, Moments

  John Anthony, Robert Anthony (1984). “The ultimate secrets of total self-confidence”, Berkley

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• The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Hypocrisy, Patterns, Garments

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• In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often, I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Germany. She said 'cut it out'

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

  Robert Stone

  Moving, Writing, Hair

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• More than 200 ships from 13 nations conducted over 10,000 flawless intercepts, which formed a steel wall around the waters leading to Iraq. And these operations continue today. Thanks to these superb efferts not one cargo hold, not one crate, not even one pallet of seaborne contraband even touched Saddam Hussein's shores. The result: Iraq lost 90% of its imports, 100% of its exports, and had its gross national product cut in half.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Wall, War, Iraq

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• The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

  William Ellery Channing

  Nature, Cheer, Communication

  William Ellery Channing (1830). “Remarks on the character and writings of Fenelon”, p.7

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• If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day

  Robin Wright

  Sleep, Next Day, Meat

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• It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that.

  Jason Isaacs

  Beautiful, Long, Robins

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• Wanting to know absolutely what a story is about, and to be able to say it in a few sentences, is dangerous: it can lead us to wanting to possess a story as we possess a cup... A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.

  Andre Dubus

  Book, Twenties, Stories

  Andre Dubus (2011). “Meditations from a Movable Chair”, p.49, Vintage

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• Start by scrapping the tax code. Don't fiddle with it. Junk it. Throw it out. Bury it. Replace it with a pro-growth, pro-family tax cut that lowers tax rates to 17% across the board and expands exemptions for individuals and children so that a family of four would pay no taxes on the first $36,000 of income.

  Steve Forbes

  Family, Children, Growth

  Announcement of Candidacy, www.cnn.com. September 22, 1995.

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• I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.

  Scott Walker

  Hate, Government, Choices

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• Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

  Amelia Earhart

  Worry, Decision, Impossible

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• Get all you can without hunting your soul, your body, or your neighbor. Save all you can, cutting off every needless expense. Give all you can. Be glad to give, and ready to distribute; laying up in store for yourselves a good foundation against the time to come, that you may attain eternal life.

  John Wesley

  Life, Hunting, Giving

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• You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.

  Jim Thompson

  Men, Feet, Corn

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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• Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.

  Timothy Murphy

  Marriage, Children, Divorce

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• If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that genius is placed into technological wizardry which has been our great achievement, or, by contrast, placed into the unraveling of complex threads of memory inherent in a myth is simply a matter of choice.

  Wade Davis

  Memories, Choices, Achievement

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• We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but tells us plainly that he is always watching us, and desiring to sift us as wheat. I believe we give him no more than his due, when we charge him with having a hand in all our sins. I believe he cuts us all out abundance of work.

  John Newton

  Believe, Agency, Hands

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• Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.

  Johnny Hart

  Dream, Hate, Self

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• If you want to feel secure, do what you already know how to do. If you want to be a true professional and continue to grow... Go to the cutting edge of your competency, which means a temporary loss of security. So whenever you don't quite know what you're doing, know you're growing.

  Madeline Hunter

  Mean, Loss, Growing

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• A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

  John Eldredge

  Suicide, Strong, Wine

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.171, Harper Collins

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• Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

  Allen Klein

  Mean Girls, Jobs, Humor

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• I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Suicide, Writing

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• If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

  Susan George

  Tree, Matter, Forests

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• Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power.

  Warren Ellis

  Stealing, Comic Book

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• Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

  Francis Bacon

  Old Things, Tools, Use

  Francis Bacon (1900). “Advancement of Learning: And Novum Organum”

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