Butchers Quotes - Page 5

• In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Successful, Race, Temples

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• How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?. .. I went to the Irish Rebellion, where I saw more than three hundred thousand Souls murder'd in cold Blood.crying, Nits will become Lice, destroy Root and Branch: with a thousand other Barbarities, too tedious as well as too dreadful to repeat, beside what has been transacted abroad.

  Mary Davys

  Children, Women, Blood

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• It's true I've got no shirts to wear;
  It's true my butcher's bill is due;
  It's true my prospects all look blue -
  But don't let that unsettle you.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Blue, Looks, Bills

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “To The Terrestrial Globe”

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• It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest destiny, always against tyranny and always in the best interests of humanity. So far this war, we've managed to butcher some 10,000,000 people in the interest of humanity. The next war, it seems we'll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  War, Ambition, Destiny

  Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The screenplays”

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• Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Horse, Years

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen”, p.36, Faber & Faber

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• I think the Priem Minister has to be a butcher and know the joints.

  Rab Butler

  Thinking, Joints, Ministers

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• There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.

  Winston Churchill

  Sheep, Way, Flocks

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• I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb.

  Jon Tester

  Mom, Hands, Meat

  "What I've Learned: Senator Jon Tester (D, Mont.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 28, 2010.

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• Entre le ro"  le de sauveur et celui de complice du bourreau,j'aper c° ois tout au plus l'incommode emploi de victime. Between the role of saviour and that of butcher's accomplice, all I see left for you is the unsavoury role of victim.

  Stephanie Crayencour

  Roles, Victim, Plus

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• I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview, is heavily Korean. A lot of my friends growing up were Korean and when I would eat dinner at their houses, their parents wouldn't tell me the names of the dishes because I would butcher the language.

  Patrick Stump

  Growing Up, Home, Names

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• But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.

  Amy Tan

  Children, Men, People

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.19, Penguin

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• There doesn't seem like there should be an artful way to butcher a cow, but there is, and this is not it.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Cows, Way, Should

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.21, Scholastic UK

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• All I can say is what you already know: some days are treasure. Not many, but I think in almost every life there are a few. That was one of mine, and when I'm blue -- when life comes down on me and everything looks tawdry and cheap, the way Joyland Avenue did on a rainy day -- I go back to it, if only to remind myself that life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they are precious.

  Stephen King

  Real, Rainy Day, Thinking

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• The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Eye, Fate

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.5, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• What is that in his hand?" "A cleaver. As in-" "Butcher's knife." "You got it." "I hope not." "He does not look happy." "Are you sure it's a he?" "I don't want to know.

  Ridley Pearson

  Hands, Knives, Doe

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• The pace of the game demanded a referee who was fit. It is an indictment of our game. You see referees abroad who are as fit as butcher's dogs. We have some who are fit. He wasn't fit.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Dog, Games

  "Sir Alex Ferguson apologises for criticising referee Alan Wiley's fitness" by Martin Palmer, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2009.

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• If you own a butcher shop, don't hire vegetarians. To hire the right people, you have to let the wrong people go.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The bullfighter who torments a bull to death and then castrates it of an ear has neither proved nor increased his own virility; he has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.

  Brigid Brophy

  Bulls, Fighter, Tendencies

  "Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews".

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• Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post

  Martin Tyler

  Soccer, Trying, Oracles

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• Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.

  William H. Gass

  Reading, Gossip, Crowds

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• Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife.

  Rick Yancey

  Knives, Drs, Fingers

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Then she did see it there - just a face, peering through the curtains, hanging in midair like a mask. A head-scarf concealed the hair and the glassy eyes stared inhumanly, but it wasn’t a mask, it couldn’t be. The skin had been powdered dead-white and two hectic spots of rouge centered on the cheekbones. It wasn’t a mask. It was the face of a crazy old woman. Mary started to scream, and then the curtains parted further and a hand appeared, holding a butcher’s knife. It was the knife that, a moment later, cut off her scream. And her head.

  Robert Bloch

  Crazy, Eye, Cutting

  Robert Bloch (2010). “Psycho: A Novel”, p.24, The Overlook Press

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• Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce. Many jobs often thought to be overwhelmingly done by immigrants are in fact majority native-born: 51 percent of maids are U.S.-born, as are 63 percent of butchers and meat processors, and 73 percent of janitors.

  Mark Krikorian

  Jobs, Occupation, Facts

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• Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Should Have, Sea, Knives

  "The Life of Mahatma Gandhi". Book by Louis Fischer, 1950.

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• I'd follow three simple rules: 1) Never go within two kilometres of circus freaks. 2) Never go near the butcher shop in Dublith. 3) Always spend under 300 sen on snacks. That ought to keep me alive!

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Simple, Snacks, Two

  mobuta.com, 2004.

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