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Quotes About Severance

We are severed in Two by an abstract enemy an invisible enemy under the title of liberators who have conveniently named the severance, Civil War. Cold War. Stalemate.
~ Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
This is the main advantage of ether: it makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel... total loss of all basic motor skills: Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue - severance of all connection between the body and the brain. Which is interesting, because the brain continues to function more or less normally... you can actually watch yourself behaving in the terrible way, but you can't control it.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Did the Order return your sense of humor as part of the severance package?
~ Ilona Andrews
Her house looked cold from the foggy lea, And the square of each window a dull black blur Where showed no stir: Yes, her gloom within at the lack of me Seemed matching mine at the lack of her. The black squares grew to be squares of light As the eyeshade swathed the house and lawn, And viols gave tone; There was glee within. And I found that night The gloom of severance mine alone
~ Thomas Hardy
sapere che coloro ai quali tu aneli, vi resistono con severa inaccessibilità, fa molto male.
~ Thomas Mann
We must confront this Zionist entity. All ties of all kinds must be severed with this plundering criminal entity, which is supported by America and its weapons, as well as by its own nuclear weapons, the existence of which is well known. It will bring about their own destruction.
~ Mohammed Morsi
I intimidate men.... People look a lot, but there's no line outside my door.
~ Joan Severance
British capitalists don't want a Left government in Spain; they'd be afraid of severance taxes. They want what they call a strong government, one that holds labor down and puts the taxes on the consumer.
~ Upton Sinclair
You miss Azemmur, she said. Yes, I said. And I have grown so used to the pain of missing it that sometimes I feel as though I have learnt to walk after an imputation. But now, Oyomasot, it is as if I can sense that severed limb again.
~ Laila Lalami
A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book means thereafter, perforce, — both grammatically and actually, — whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it.
~ James Branch Cabell
Let us consider letters—how they come at breakfast, and at night, with their yellow stamps and their green stamps, immortalized by the postmark—for to see one's own envelope on another's table is to realize how soon deeds sever and become alien. Then at last the power of the mind to quit the body is manifest, and perhaps we fear or hate or wish annihilated this phantom of ourselves, lying on the table.
~ Virginia Woolf
then with one powerful blow, he severed Quesada's head from his neck.
~ Laurence Bergreen
There are too many ways that a startup gig can go sideways. If the startup won't agree to hefty severance, pass.
~ Daniel Lyons
Lizette didn't lay eyes on Audre till she was two. It was cruel. She hadn't raised her daughter to have such ghastly manners. But in the end, maybe Genevieve had been right to sever ties. Genevieve was Eva now, and she and Audre were both thriving. Everything turns out the way it oughta, she thought.
~ Tia Williams
My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.
~ Lynette Fromme
Imagine the parts of yourself disassembled; imagine, for example, that nothing is left of you but a severed hand in an ice cooler. Perhaps there is one of your loved ones who could identify even this small piece. Here: the lines on your palm. The texture of your knuckles and wrinkled skin at the joints in the middle of your fingers. Calluses, scars. The shape of your nails.
~ Dan Chaon
If an organization wants innovation to flourish, the conversation needs to change from severance packages to retention bonuses.
~ Chris Farrell
that day, at that hour, there took place in her heart a complete severance from all her old life, and a quite different, new, utterly strange life had begun for her,
~ Leo Tolstoy
Thou art relieved of thy duties!
~ Vince McMahon
Once the queen's head is severed, he walks away.
~ Hilary Mantel
There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
~ Agnes Smedley
queria saber apenas para onde vão os piolhos dos decapitados. Um enigma.
~ Unknown
I am not yet sure how to sever the love from the lover without occasioning some degree of carnage.
~ Maggie Nelson
Our weakness consists not in this, that we are in opposition to others, but in this, that we are not completely so; that we are not entirely severed from them, that we still seek a "Communion", a "Bond", that in communion we have an ideal. One faith, one god, one idea, one hat, for all! If all were brought under one hat, certainly no one would need to take off his hat for another anymore.
~ Max Stirner