Cutting Off Quotes - Page 2

• What he brought out was a wooden gag they put in someone's mouth before doing something drastic, like cutting off a leg.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Cutting, Mouths, Legs

  Megan Whalen Turner (2017). “World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves”, p.18, HarperCollins

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• Only then did I see. Something was amiss with Patrick's snap-on one piece, or "onesie" as we manly dads like to call it. His chubby thighs, I now realized, were squeezed into the armholes, which were so tight they must have been cutting off his circulation. The collared neck hung between his legs like an udder. Up top, Patrick's head stuck out through the unsnapped crotch, and his arms were lost somewhere in the billowing pant legs. It was quite a look.

  John Grogan

  Dad, Cutting, Looks

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• There were two Avoxes with me in prison. Darius and Lavinia, but the guards mostly called them the redheads. They'd been our servants in the Training Center, so they arrested them, too. I watched them being tortured to death. She was lucky. They used too much voltage and her heart stopped right off. It took days to finish him off. Beating, cutting off parts. They kept asking him questions, but he couldn't speak, he just made these horrible animals sounds. They didn't want information, you know? They wanted me to see it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Heart, Cutting, Animal

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.274, Scholastic Inc.

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• No chance. It'd be like cutting off our hands." "Then learn to live without your hands." "No, because then we won't be able to do this," Ben says, giving him the finger [...]

  Melina Marchetta

  Cutting, Hands, Giving

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• Annabel looked down. Her hands were shaking. She couldn't do this. Not yet. She couldn't face the man she'd kissed who happened to be the heir to the man she didn't want to kiss but whos she probably was going to marry. Oh yes, and she could not forget that if she did marry the man she didn't want to kiss, she was likely to provide him with a new heir, thus cutting off the man she did want to kiss.

  Julia Quinn

  Cutting, Kissing, Men

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• Stop. I don't do you favors, Alec. I do things for you because - well, why do you think I do them?" Something rose up in Alec's throat, cutting off his response. It was always like this when he was with Magnus. It was as if there were a bubble of pain or regret that lived inside his heart, and when he wanted to say something, anything, that seemed meaningful or true, it rose up and choked off his words. "I need to get back to the ship," he said, finally.

  Cassandra Clare

  Meaningful, Pain, Regret

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.834, Simon and Schuster

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• All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Cutting, Men

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hey, if you'd wanted to avoid 'this,' you shouldn't have lured me last night. Now it's too late. You might as well avoid the long, drawn-out pain and get it over with quickly. Sort of like taking off a Band-Aid. Or cutting off a limb." "Wow, who says there's no romance left in the world?

  Richelle Mead

  Pain, Cutting, Night

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.107, Zebra Books

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• A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Summer, Dad, Block

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• But now well democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are greedy for money and power, they are ambitious that is the reason they are big heads and so they are at the head of the government and the result is misery for the people. They talk about cutting off the heads of the grosses têtes but now we know that there will be other grosses têtes and the will be all the same.

  Gertrude Stein

  Cutting, Democracies Have, Government

  "Paris France". Book by Gertrude Stein, p. 28 (in 1970 edition), 1940.

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• In order to create an image almost similar to that of a pencil case standing up and walking, I try to eliminate all excess by cutting. I have the feeling that this process (of "cutting off") is linked in some way to "elegance". Elegance and so-called "eliminating excess", or the beauty that remains after excess has beeen eliminated...

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Cutting, Order, Feelings

  "The Past, the Feminine, the Vain in Talking to Myself" by Kiyokazu Washida, Ch. 3, 2002.

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• It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'

  Lily James

  Cutting, Men, Curves

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• If you have an image of someone cutting off a relationship, it's the cutting off that will lead to your suffering. If you see the action as their need being expressed, then the message is within them, not you. Any interpretation you put onto another person's message (such as passive-aggressive, withholding, etc.), you will pay for because of how you took it.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Cutting, Suffering

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• The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Death, Freedom, Cutting

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, A.V. Miller (tr.) (1998). “Phenomenology of Spirit”, p.360, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.

  William James

  Mean, Cutting, Order

  William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Historians of the future will find it incredible that we mutilated babies by cutting off the end of their penises in the name of medicine. There are now serious concerns this routine procedure may actually deprive adult men of a vital part of their sexual sensitivity.

  Dean Edell

  Baby, Cutting, Men

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• He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting off of the villain Chow, but I have not heard of the putting of a ruler to death.

  Mencius

  Cutting, Ruffian, Villain

  "The Mencius". 1B:8, as translated in "China" (1904) by Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas, p. 8, c. 300 BC.

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• I was sitting on my own in a restaurant, when I saw a beautiful woman at another table. I sent her a bottle of the most expensive wine on the menu. She sent me a note:
  "I will not touch a drop of this wine unless you can assure me that you have seven inches in your pants." So I wrote back: "Give me the wine. As gorgeous as you are, I'm not cutting off three inches for anyone.

  Akhil

  Beautiful, Wine, Cutting

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• If Russia is prepared to run the risk of cutting off supplies to its neighbors if they have a disagreement, how reliable are they as a supplier? You have to ask the question.

  William Ramsay

  Running, Cutting, Russia

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• Some people try to be tall by cutting off the heads of others.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Cutting, People, Trying

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.182, Paramahansa Yogananda

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• I'm not for cutting off hands but I'm more for cutting off hands than I am for molesting children, if that's what it takes to stop it. I think that's fair.

  Tucker Carlson

  Children, Cutting, Thinking

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. June 17, 2005.

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• We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.... the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless

  Business, Believe, Cutting

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• If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands.

  Charlie Munger

  Cutting, Hands, Wish

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• It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko [Ono]. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.

  John Lennon

  Cutting, Long, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, Cutting, Uganda

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