Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction
There is no short cut to acheivement.
The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.
The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I’m out there on the basketball court.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.
When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.
We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it's actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami.
I'm a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I'm an old guy.
We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.
If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.
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