Quotes about cutting
cutting sea heaven
For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of that desire made them defy death in a thousand shapes; the unknown seas, the loathsome diseases; wounds, captivity, hunger, pestilence and despair. It made them great! By heavens! It made them heroic; and it made them pathetic, too, in their craving for trade with the inflexible death levying its toll on young and old Joseph Conrad
cutting reflection achievement
To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
cutting healthy lust
A lot of us have developed a diet mentality toward lust. We really want to cut back on lust because we know its not healthy and it makes us feel bad. But like some rich, calorie-laden chocolate dessert, lust is just too tasty to resist completely. Surely God will understand if we break our diet and nibble a little lust now and then. Joshua Harris
cutting anxiety mind
Paralysis, anxiety stomachs, arthritis and many ills and aberrations have been relieved by auditing them. An E-Meter shows them up and makes them confess their misdeeds. They are probably just compartments of the mind which, cut off, begin to act as though they were persons. Lawrence Wright
cutting loud deeper
Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud. Laurell K. Hamilton
cutting names issues
A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty. Lane Evans
cutting growth lasts
I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it we had great economic growth, we cut taxes, and we had a big surplus. John Kasich
cutting beer thinking
I don't think I've ever stepped into a gym - they won't let me smoke there. I just thank God Miller Lite isn't as fattening as most beers. If I cut back on beer, though, I'd look anorexic. John Daly
cutting needs action
I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut. John Cusack
cutting thinking hair
Todd? Are you still there?" "Yeah. I'm just trying to think of a good reason to continue our friendship." I grinned. "Jealousy is so unattractive Todd." "It would help if you could tell me one thing that's wrong. One flaw. Bad breath? Warts? Some condition that requires anti fungal spray?" "Would chest hair be a flaw?" "Oh, yeah." Todd sounded relieved." I can't stand a chest rug. You can't see the chest cut. Lisa Kleypas
cutting feelings too-deep
The feelings cut too deep for them to be put on display.
cutting effort firsts
While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant. Lionel Barber
cutting government growing
The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill. Lindsey Graham
cutting who-i-am the-end-of-the-day
My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj started wearing that bob on her head after she came to my show, so at the end of the day, I know what I do, and I know what I possess, and I know who I am. I'm a trendsetter. The biggest form of flattery is imitation, so I'm flattered. Lil Mama
cutting cafeteria spoons
Oh, the testosterone. You could have cut it with a cafeteria spoon. Lilith Saintcrow
cutting blessing air
At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together. Gary David Goldberg
cutting do-it-yourself universe
Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later. Lois McMaster Bujold
cutting needed eurozone
More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the eurozone. Lucas Papademos
cutting years europe
Europe has been in the grip of a very serious economic crisis for few years, so there have been major cuts to anti-terrorist funding, to intelligence funding. So we do not have the manpower to carry on this kind of monitoring. Loretta Napoleoni
cutting directors minutes
I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies. M. Night Shyamalan
cutting green directors
You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.
cutting thinking long
My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the better.
cutting thinking epidemics
People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think of crime as another disease, and using some of these same concepts. It was something that was in the air in that world, but it was time to bust it out and apply it to any number of different social epidemics. Malcolm Gladwell
cutting drug abuse
An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.
cutting college government
The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities. Gail Collins
cutting winning men
Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right. Freya Stark
cutting play aids
Play hardball with Musharraf, but don't cut off US aid. Fred Thompson
cutting trying degrees
Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings. Gustave Courbet
cutting people wife
You people sometimes are like those serial killers you see in films who cut out the words 'I am going to get you' or 'your wife is next'. Gordon Strachan
cutting aggressive throat
I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler. Gordon Ramsay
cutting science doubt
Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing. Gilbert K. Chesterton
cutting perfect
I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect. John Malkovich
cutting together punk
Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together. John Lydon