Cutting Quotes

What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.

The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them.

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am.

What I have proposed would cut regulations and streamline them for small businesses.

China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world.

I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.

What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have dire consequences for Social Security and Medicare.

ISIL videos, ISIL training videos are telling lone wolves the easiest way to cut by a combat assault weapon in America is at a gun show, because of the flip-flopping political approach of Washington.

With less competition, corporations can use their power to raise prices, limit choice for consumers, cut wages for workers, crowd out start-ups and small businesses.

I will not cut benefits. I want to enhance benefits for low-income workers and for women who have been disadvantaged by the current Social Security system.

Cutting taxes even more on the wealthy and corporations, that's not going to help anybody except the wealthy and corporations.

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.

Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. "You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself.

More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face.

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

My parents were in the studio when we cut 'Let Me Try' and every time I sang it they started crying, ... I finally had to ask them to leave because I couldn't sing it while they were crying.

I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

Let's cut loose what you were given and find what you can seek.

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can't cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.

I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.

I'm not trying to cut myself off from the rest of the culture by not licensing.

It's important to over-deliver on the quality of the books as far as depth and content. It's not worth it to cut out 50 pages just because it would be a little bit cheaper.

If we cut open the bud of a beautiful rose in order to see how it is 'packed' and what it is going to look like, what sort of a bloom will we get?

Television is where I cut my teeth.

Bad days, good days, ‘I’ll cut you if you look at me the wrong way’ days. I’ll take them all.

He joked while Dali cut him, mangling the words with his monstrous jaws, snarled with a pretended rage and dramatically promised to "kirrrl youraaalll for this!

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

From my point of view it's impossible to cut debt in a country with new debt from another country.

Lessons cut short to prep for tests that only test how well you prep. ...Man, no wonder why the score's a mess.

Economy: cutting down other people's wages.

I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the things to keep it smooth going!

Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete.

What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal.

A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.

I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.

I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.

I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.

When somebody says, Action, I act. When they say, Cut, thats my job. Ive done it.

A roar cut through the melee: a booming growl, a noise that might come out of a she-bear protecting a cub. It was Alec- and suddenly bodies were flying everywhere.

We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.

William Ewart Gladstone is credited with the credo that a prime minister must be a "good butcher." The metaphor is apt insofar as the root of the word "decision" is "to cut."