Cuts Quotes
699 Cuts quotes by 523 unique authors
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Destiny cuts the cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.
— Stefano Benni
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The mishandling of food and equipment with panache was always admired; to some extent, this remains true to this day. Butchers still slap down prime…
— Anthony Bourdain
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A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart,…
— Michael Ondaatje
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Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.
— Mark Nepo
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Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole…
— Andrew Sean Greer
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If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to change, that paper…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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The truth between two people always cuts two ways.
— Diana Wynne Jones
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The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one…
— Hendrik Hertzberg
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Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall…
— Pablo Neruda
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All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings of a bunch of balloons. Everything…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as…
— Blaise Pascal
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I admired Stalkers style. He was incredibly fast using two small blades strapped to the backs of his hands. Slash slash slash. Fighting him you…
— Ann Aguirre
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Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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I saw the logic that they used, and the death of a thousand cuts as experimental scientists slowly chipped away at the belief that the…
— Deborah Harkness
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When your power comes from others, on approval, you are their slave. Never sacrifice yourselves - never! Whoever urges you to self-sacrifice is worse than…
— Tobias Wolff
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How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the…
— Julian Barnes
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Emma hears me come up the stairs and asks me to watch a movie with her. I stick Band-Aids on my weeping cuts, put on…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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It was like death by a thousand paper cuts.
— Tonya Hurley
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This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this,…
— John Steinbeck
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Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rick as what they are -- a…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence?…
— Jodi Picoult
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It sounds silly, I know. But for me, the power of music rests in its ability to reach inside and touch the places where the…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick…
— George R. R. Martin
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Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees…
— W.N.P. Barbellion
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Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience.
— Deepak Chopra
Who Wrote These Cuts Quotes
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