Cutting Off Quotes

• Don't cut off your nose yourself.

  Casey Stengel

  Cutting, Noses, Spite

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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, Cutting, Hunting

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• It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Cutting, Touching, Humanity

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I pulled the trigger twice, cutting off his protests, and Finn joined my lover on the floor.

  Jennifer Estep

  Cutting, Lovers, Triggers

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Widow's Web”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• He has one of those heads people think about cutting off." “Yes. He does.

  Charlie Huston

  Cutting, Thinking, People

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• J_Doe032692 wrote: I am not a thin person. However this does not give people the right to taunt me, calling me ugly and worthless, telling me to kill myself because no one will ever want me, or to make up songs about why I am so fat and how much food I eat. NO ONE, I repeat, NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO HURT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THIS BADLY. My throat constricts. The neck brace feels as if it's shrinking and cutting off my esophagus. I reach up and cover the words with my hand and the web site dissolves. I want to go. Now.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Song, Hurt, Cutting

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• Ursan flourished the knife, threatening me. "Talk, or I'll start cutting off body parts." "Yours? Or mine?" I kept my voice steady despite my insides twisting into goo. "It's an important distinction.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Cutting, Knives, Voice

  Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Scent of Magic”, p.61, Harlequin

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• In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.

  Colin Gunton

  Lying, Cutting, Desire

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• I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Philosophy, Work, Cutting

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

  John Berger

  Mean, Cutting, Past

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• You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative life. You are becoming a neuter machine. You cannot love, even if you knew how to begin to love. Every thought is a devil, a hell-if you could do a lot of things over again, ah, how differently you would do them! You want to go home, back to the womb. You watch the world bang door after door in your face, numbly, bitterly. You have forgotten the secret you knew, once, ah, once, of being joyous, of laughing, of opening doors.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Home, Cutting

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.67, Anchor

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• Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth; alms to covetousness.

  Richard of Chichester

  Prayer, Pride, Cutting

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• Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Cutting, America, People

  Time magazine, September 09, 1985.

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• If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply.

  Judith Plaskow

  Cutting, Feelings, World

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• When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I get the faster it goes. As soon as you start making decisions you start cutting off all of the other possibilities of things that could happen. So with every decision that you make you are removing a whole bunch of other possibilities of where that story can go or what that character can do. So when I get maybe 2/3's of the way through I can see very clearly where it is going to go.

  Steven Zaillian

  Writing, Character, Cutting

  Source: collider.com

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• Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Cutting, Fire, Ideas

  "Athens demands cash reserves from public sector funds" by Katie Allen, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2015.

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• I want you to take note, Commander, that turning in my badge would be like cutting off my arm. But if it comes down to a choice between the job and my marriage, then I lose the arm.

  Nora Roberts

  Jobs, Cutting, Choices

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection”, p.147, Penguin

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• Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Cutting, Winter

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.400, Ballantine Books

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• Most ankle strap shoes are seriously unattractive, cutting the line of the leg as well as cutting off the circulation! Try dancing in them - your feet will look like a pair of overdone hotdogs afterwards.

  Joan Collins

  Cutting, Shoes, Feet

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• My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.

  Nathan Fillion

  Cutting, Brain, Information

  "Nathan Fillion Talks About Wonder Woman". Interview with Tony Guerrero, comicvine.gamespot.com. January 28, 2009.

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• Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

  Aldous Huxley

  Travel, Heart, Cutting

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

  Jonathan Swift

  Money, Cutting, Shoes

  Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711)

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• Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Cutting, Being Sad

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• When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

  C. S. Lewis

  Cutting, Religion, Sitting

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.53, HarperCollins UK

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• If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to that body enables Him to do more. If you want to help those outside you must add your own little cell to the body of Christ who along can help them. Cutting off a man's fingers would be a odd way of getting him to do more work.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Cutting, Men

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