Chopping Quotes - Page 4

• Anytime you lose one fight in the UFC, you kind of have to feel like you are on the chopping block. There is so much competition in this sport.

  Charlie Brenneman

  Sports, Block, Fighting

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.

  Kate Winslet

  Thinking, Cooking, Endless

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• Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.

  Martin Scorsese

  Zombie, Shooting

  "Martin Scorsese on Raging Bull II (?!) and Why He Prefers Vampires to Zombies". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. April 5, 2012.

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• At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

  Katy Perry

  Block, Artist, Female

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• Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar because a higher moral law was involved. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks, before submitting to certain unjust laws of the Roman empire.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Pain, Block

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.93, Beacon Press

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• If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime ban. Death penalty. I spent my entire life on the baseball fields of America, and I was not going to give up my profession without first seeing some hard evidence ... right or wrong, the punishment didn't fit the crime, so I denied the crime.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Giving Up, Block

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.148, Rodale

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• Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree.

  George Washington

  Fitness, Presidential, Tree

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• ..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in fact the problem was that all too many of them HAD gotten a man, married him, had his kids, and then discovered that, as mothers, they were never supposed to have their own money, their own identity, their own aspirations, time to pee, or a brain. And yes, some women indeed became bad-tempered as a result. After all, no anger, no social change.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Mother, Fun, Kids

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• I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land.

  Aldo Leopold

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.68, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When brother Brigham and brother Joseph Young went up to see the Prophet, they found him chopping wood; for he was a labouring man, and gained his bread by the sweat of his brow. They made themselves acquainted with him. He received them gladly, invited them to his house, and they rejoiced together in the Gospel of Christ, and their hearts were knitted together in the spirit and bond of union.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Brother, Heart, Men

  Journal of Discourses 7:100, January 10, 1858.

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• By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.

  Gerald Durrell

  Children, War, Garden

  "Two in the Bush". Book by Gerald Durrell, 1966.

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• Cooking a fantastic meal is therapeutic. I like the entire process-the chopping, the stirring. At the end, hopefully you get to enjoy a great meal with a friend or loved one.

  Natalie Coughlin

  Cooking, Meals, Loved Ones

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• When chopping onions, just chop onions.

  Michael Pollan

  Onions

  "Michael Pollan Gets Cooked". Interview with Tanya Steel, www.epicurious.com.

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• When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise." So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God.

  Pete Seeger

  Mirrors, House, Tree

  Source: portside.org

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• . . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Book, Daily Activities, Cooking

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a little speedboat, her enemies spun and tossed and turned and disoriented in her wake. Sanya and I hacked our way through stunned foes, pushing and chopping with unsophisticated brutality-and that big Russian lunatic just kept laughing the whole time.

  Jim Butcher

  Sea, Laughing, Enemy

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.324, Penguin

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• I blame Riley for my broken thumb, not Matt Geiger. That ain't defense Miami is playing. That's just chopping. I have no idea how his team gets away with it. I guess when you've been in the league 30 years you can do it. Respect, he gets it - he's like John Gotti.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Team, Years

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• I don't get tired. I get beat up. You keep chopping on a tree, you need to give the tree some rest so the chlorophyll will fill back up and the tree gets its energy back.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Tired, Giving

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• There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream."

  Taylor Branch

  Dream, Kings, Icons

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• ...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

  Alan Watts

  Problem, Horns, Dilemma

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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