Quotes About Cutting

My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So to make money in the summer we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Threatening others with physical harm allows the possibility of cutting through all this. It makes possible relations of a far more simple and schematic kind ("cross this line and I will shoot you," "one more word out of any of you and you're going to jail"). This is of course why violence is so often the preferred weapon of the stupid.

That's one of my greatest strengths. I'm a Scorpio rising - we're very decisive. I'm very good at cutting things off that don't feel right.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

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.

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and, and trying to get a grip on the size of government.

We should empower teachers to do their job by cutting wasteful spending and crippling bureaucracy, not classroom resources our educators and students need.

I started to improvise a cutting remark, because I am methodical by temperament and like to see plans carried out when they have been made ...

She spoke in a caustic tone that would surely have burned out anyone else's tongue had they attempted it.

Knowledge is not made for understanding it is made for cutting.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

The Stihls were doers. They carved out a place and a name for themselves in America when you Brits were cutting the heads off your kings.

Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.

I didn't do anything to you." "You're right. You didn't. And if I kept shouting 'Revenge!' the whole time I was cutting you, that argument would have some substance. But since I've given no indication that my actions are vengeance-based, it was a pointless thing to say.

This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation.

I can easily cut 10 to 15 pounds without feeling like I'm killing myself.

I'm sorry to tell you that the purity of scientific truth rarely cuts through contemporary social attitudes.

The revolt seemed to Nadia more a waste than ever, an unfocused spasm of rage, the ultimate cutting off one's nose to spite one's face.

If you want to finish the evening with your usual number of fingers, do any cutting-up, peel-slicing and the like before you have had more than a couple of drinks, preferably before your first.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.