Lopped Quotes
13 quotes by 11 authors
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Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!
— Swami Vivekananda
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If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.
— Andrew Johnson
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Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your…
— Jean-Paul Marat
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I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.
— Richard Linklater
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Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my childhood ends forever.…
— Hal Porter
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This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that neither This Year…
— Hal Porter
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'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and…
— John Steinbeck
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... to me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within…
— Henry David Thoreau
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A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
— Ivan Turgenev
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Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun. No poet can hope to understand the nature…
— Robert Graves
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The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs;…
— C.S. Lewis
Who Wrote These Lopped Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 13 Lopped Quotes as follows: