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Quotes About Cutting

Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. What did Knight do for a living? He lived for a living.
~ Michael Finkel
she was a dreadful woman; and she was, that's true enough, but sometimes I have wondered lately if she knew it—if she wa'n't like a baby with scissors in its hand cuttin' everybody without knowin' what it was doin'.
~ Unknown
Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.
~ Muriel Spark
A politically incorrect point must be noted here. Of the countries where women are held back and subjected to systematic abuses such as honor killings and genital cutting, a very large proportion are predominately Muslim. Most Muslims worldwide don't believe in such practices...but the fact remains that the countries where girls are cut, killer for honor, or kept out of school or the workplace typically have large Muslim populations.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
If his ethos had inspired those in charge of cutting government waste, we'd be turning a surplus in a finger snap.
~ Unknown
He says tools but somebody will mention the cutting edges of things and one will see billhook, scythe, fauchard, debris, wood chips and sketches all entangled like words in summertime, when crickets and corn, lives and vines, sunflowers and stormy hours touch and quench one another.
~ Unknown
So I said to Arnold: "I'm cutting out of this madhouse." So they said: "Wait just a couple of minutes, because we're going to have a rehearsal." You'd think they were being married on television...
~ Paddy Chayefsky
There was a glass-fronted cabinet opposite, filled with plates on display stands and teacups with so many curlicues it was a wonder you could drink from them without cutting your lips.
~ Patrick Ness
the incisive observational powers of a female surgeon cutting out her own heart.
~ Patti Smith
Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to Malaysia, a terrible blow to the spirit. It is worse than being penniless and more cutting than the blades of enemies. The
~ Paulette Jiles
Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to East Indies, a terrible blow to the spirit. It is worse than being penniless and more cutting than the blades of enemies.
~ Paulette Jiles
dreadful loss of status in the world. In his world. Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to East Indies, a terrible blow to the spirit. It is worse than being penniless and more cutting than the blades of enemies.
~ Paulette Jiles
The US constitution is like Washington DC, a matter of columns and beautiful design, the English constitution is more like a forest, you can't build a forest, you can easily cut it down, and that is what we're doing, we're cutting down a forest that we can't rebuild.
~ Peter Hitchens
So Elisha went with them, and when they came to the Jordan, they began to cut down some trees.
~ 2 Kings 6:4
So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant?
~ Jeremiah 44:7