Cutting Off Quotes:

Don't cut off your nose yourself.

- Casey Stengel

topic: Cutting, Noses, Spite, Cutting Off

Get all you can without hunting your soul, your body, or your neighbor. Save all you can, cutting off every needless expense. Give all you can. Be glad to give, and ready to distribute; laying up in store for yourselves a good foundation against the time to come, that you may attain eternal life.

- John Wesley

topic: Life, Cutting, Hunting, Cutting Off

It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.

- Ingmar Bergman

topic: Cutting, Touching, Humanity, Cutting Off

I pulled the trigger twice, cutting off his protests, and Finn joined my lover on the floor.

- Jennifer Estep

topic: Cutting, Lovers, Triggers, My Lover, Cutting Off

He has one of those heads people think about cutting off." “Yes. He does.

- Charlie Huston

topic: Cutting, Thinking, People, Cutting Off

J_Doe032692 wrote: I am not a thin person. However this does not give people the right to taunt me, calling me ugly and worthless, telling me to kill myself because no one will ever want me, or to make up songs about why I am so fat and how much food I eat. NO ONE, I repeat, NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO HURT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THIS BADLY. My throat constricts. The neck brace feels as if it's shrinking and cutting off my esophagus. I reach up and cover the words with my hand and the web site dissolves. I want to go. Now.

- Julie Anne Peters

topic: Song, Hurt, Cutting, Cutting Off

Ursan flourished the knife, threatening me. "Talk, or I'll start cutting off body parts." "Yours? Or mine?" I kept my voice steady despite my insides twisting into goo. "It's an important distinction.

- Maria V. Snyder

topic: Cutting, Knives, Voice, Cutting Off

In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.

- Colin Gunton

topic: Lying, Cutting, Desire, Cutting Off

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.110, Open Road Media

topic: Cutting Off, Business Plan

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

- John Berger

topic: Mean, Cutting, Past, Post Modernism, Cutting Off

You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative life. You are becoming a neuter machine. You cannot love, even if you knew how to begin to love. Every thought is a devil, a hell-if you could do a lot of things over again, ah, how differently you would do them! You want to go home, back to the womb. You watch the world bang door after door in your face, numbly, bitterly. You have forgotten the secret you knew, once, ah, once, of being joyous, of laughing, of opening doors.

- Sylvia Plath

source: Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.67, Anchor

topic: Depression, Home, Cutting, Cutting Off, Opening Doors

Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth; alms to covetousness.

- Richard of Chichester

topic: Prayer, Pride, Cutting, Cutting Off

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

topic: Cutting, People, United States, Cutting Off

If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply.

- Judith Plaskow

topic: Cutting, Feelings, World, Live Passionately, Cutting Off

When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I get the faster it goes. As soon as you start making decisions you start cutting off all of the other possibilities of things that could happen. So with every decision that you make you are removing a whole bunch of other possibilities of where that story can go or what that character can do. So when I get maybe 2/3's of the way through I can see very clearly where it is going to go.

- Steven Zaillian

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Writing, Character, Cutting, Cutting Off

Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

- Yanis Varoufakis

source: "Athens demands cash reserves from public sector funds" by Katie Allen, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2015.

topic: Cutting, Ideas, Fire, Playing With Fire, Cutting Off

I want you to take note, Commander, that turning in my badge would be like cutting off my arm. But if it comes down to a choice between the job and my marriage, then I lose the arm.

- Nora Roberts

source: J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection”, p.147, Penguin

topic: Jobs, Cutting, Choices, Commanders, Cutting Off

Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?

- Carl Sagan

source: Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.400, Ballantine Books

topic: Cutting Off

Most ankle strap shoes are seriously unattractive, cutting the line of the leg as well as cutting off the circulation! Try dancing in them - your feet will look like a pair of overdone hotdogs afterwards.

- Joan Collins

topic: Cutting, Shoes, Feet, Cutting Off

My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.

- Nathan Fillion

source: "Nathan Fillion Talks About Wonder Woman". Interview with Tony Guerrero, comicvine.gamespot.com. January 28, 2009.

topic: Cutting, Brain, Information, Cutting Off, New Information

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

- Aldous Huxley

source: Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

topic: Travel, Heart, Cutting, Hunger And Thirst, Cutting Off

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Money, Cutting, Feet, Cutting Off

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

- Carl Jung

topic: Inspirational, Cutting, Being Sad, Cutting Off

When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Cutting, Religion, Sitting, Cutting Off

If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to that body enables Him to do more. If you want to help those outside you must add your own little cell to the body of Christ who along can help them. Cutting off a man's fingers would be a odd way of getting him to do more work.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Christian, Cutting, Men, Cutting Off, Body Of Christ

What he brought out was a wooden gag they put in someone's mouth before doing something drastic, like cutting off a leg.

- Megan Whalen Turner

source: Megan Whalen Turner (2017). “World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves”, p.18, HarperCollins

topic: Cutting, Mouths, Legs, Cutting Off, Gags

Only then did I see. Something was amiss with Patrick's snap-on one piece, or "onesie" as we manly dads like to call it. His chubby thighs, I now realized, were squeezed into the armholes, which were so tight they must have been cutting off his circulation. The collared neck hung between his legs like an udder. Up top, Patrick's head stuck out through the unsnapped crotch, and his arms were lost somewhere in the billowing pant legs. It was quite a look.

- John Grogan

topic: Dad, Cutting, Legs, Circulation, One Piece

There were two Avoxes with me in prison. Darius and Lavinia, but the guards mostly called them the redheads. They'd been our servants in the Training Center, so they arrested them, too. I watched them being tortured to death. She was lucky. They used too much voltage and her heart stopped right off. It took days to finish him off. Beating, cutting off parts. They kept asking him questions, but he couldn't speak, he just made these horrible animals sounds. They didn't want information, you know? They wanted me to see it.

- Suzanne Collins

source: Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.274, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Heart, Cutting, Animal, Lavinia, Darius

No chance. It'd be like cutting off our hands." "Then learn to live without your hands." "No, because then we won't be able to do this," Ben says, giving him the finger [...]

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Cutting, Hands, Giving, Cutting Off

Annabel looked down. Her hands were shaking. She couldn't do this. Not yet. She couldn't face the man she'd kissed who happened to be the heir to the man she didn't want to kiss but whos she probably was going to marry. Oh yes, and she could not forget that if she did marry the man she didn't want to kiss, she was likely to provide him with a new heir, thus cutting off the man she did want to kiss.

- Julia Quinn

topic: Cutting, Kissing, Men, Cutting Off

Stop. I don't do you favors, Alec. I do things for you because - well, why do you think I do them?" Something rose up in Alec's throat, cutting off his response. It was always like this when he was with Magnus. It was as if there were a bubble of pain or regret that lived inside his heart, and when he wanted to say something, anything, that seemed meaningful or true, it rose up and choked off his words. "I need to get back to the ship," he said, finally.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.834, Simon and Schuster

topic: Meaningful, Pain, Regret, Cutting Off

All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.

- M. F. K. Fisher

source: Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Food, Cutting, Men, Cutting Off

Hey, if you'd wanted to avoid 'this,' you shouldn't have lured me last night. Now it's too late. You might as well avoid the long, drawn-out pain and get it over with quickly. Sort of like taking off a Band-Aid. Or cutting off a limb." "Wow, who says there's no romance left in the world?

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.107, Zebra Books

topic: Pain, Cutting, Night, Cutting Off, Band Aid

A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.

- Laurie Halse Anderson

topic: Summer, Dad, Block, Chopping, End Of Summer

But now well democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are greedy for money and power, they are ambitious that is the reason they are big heads and so they are at the head of the government and the result is misery for the people. They talk about cutting off the heads of the grosses têtes but now we know that there will be other grosses têtes and the will be all the same.

- Gertrude Stein

source: "Paris France". Book by Gertrude Stein, p. 28 (in 1970 edition), 1940.

topic: Cutting, Democracies Have, Government, Cutting Off, Big Heads

In order to create an image almost similar to that of a pencil case standing up and walking, I try to eliminate all excess by cutting. I have the feeling that this process (of "cutting off") is linked in some way to "elegance". Elegance and so-called "eliminating excess", or the beauty that remains after excess has beeen eliminated...

- Yohji Yamamoto

topic: Cutting, Order, Feelings, Cutting Off

It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'

- Lily James

topic: Cutting, Men, Curves, Female Empowerment, Accentuate

If you have an image of someone cutting off a relationship, it's the cutting off that will lead to your suffering. If you see the action as their need being expressed, then the message is within them, not you. Any interpretation you put onto another person's message (such as passive-aggressive, withholding, etc.), you will pay for because of how you took it.

- Marshall B. Rosenberg

topic: Communication, Cutting, Suffering, Passive Aggressive, Cutting Off

The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.

- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

topic: Death, Freedom, Cutting, Cutting Off

Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.

- William James

topic: Mean, Cutting, Order, Spiritualism, Cutting Off

Historians of the future will find it incredible that we mutilated babies by cutting off the end of their penises in the name of medicine. There are now serious concerns this routine procedure may actually deprive adult men of a vital part of their sexual sensitivity.

- Dean Edell

topic: Baby, Cutting, Men, Cutting Off

He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting off of the villain Chow, but I have not heard of the putting of a ruler to death.

- Mencius

topic: Cutting, Ruffian, Villain, Cutting Off

I was sitting on my own in a restaurant, when I saw a beautiful woman at another table. I sent her a bottle of the most expensive wine on the menu. She sent me a note: "I will not touch a drop of this wine unless you can assure me that you have seven inches in your pants." So I wrote back: "Give me the wine. As gorgeous as you are, I'm not cutting off three inches for anyone.

- Akhil

topic: Beautiful, Wine, Cutting, Cutting Off

If Russia is prepared to run the risk of cutting off supplies to its neighbors if they have a disagreement, how reliable are they as a supplier? You have to ask the question.

- William Ramsay

topic: Running, Cutting, Russia, Cutting Off, Suppliers

Some people try to be tall by cutting off the heads of others.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

source: Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.182, Paramahansa Yogananda

topic: Cutting, People, Trying, Cutting Off

I'm not for cutting off hands but I'm more for cutting off hands than I am for molesting children, if that's what it takes to stop it. I think that's fair.

- Tucker Carlson

source: "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. June 17, 2005.

topic: Children, Cutting, Thinking, Cutting Off

We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.... the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.

- Benjamin Franklin Fairless

topic: Business, Believe, Cutting, Cutting Off

If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands.

- Charlie Munger

topic: Cutting, Hands, Wish, Multidisciplinary, Cutting Off

It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko [Ono]. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.

- John Lennon

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Cutting, Long, People, Maleness, Cutting Off

The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Pain, Cutting, Uganda, Cutting Off