Quotes with cut-throat

Quotes 41 till 60 of 165.

  • Joseph Conrad How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Maya Angelou I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Bill Frist I can play hardball as well as anybody. That's what I did, cut people's hearts out.
    New York Times, 2 February 2005
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Buddy Rich I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Lillian Hellman I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
    Lillian Hellman
    American playwright (1905 - 1984)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Agnetha Faltskog I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.
    Agnetha Faltskog
    Swedish singer, songwriter and actress (1950 - )
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  • Bruno Mars I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I've done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it's nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Antonin Artaud I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Barack Obama I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
    Celebrating Change: Key Speeches of President-Elect Barack Obama, From October 2002 to November 2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bethany Hamilton I'm not a vegetarian by any means; I eat fish. But the problem with shark finning is they catch the shark, cut their fins and throw them back in the ocean, and to me, that's wrong. If you're going to kill an animal, you should use the entire animal and do it humanely. I'm definitely not a big fan.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Becki Newton I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Ann Coulter I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Carlyle If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Barack Obama If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Margaret Thatcher If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Benazir Bhutto In 1988, when democracy was restored, the military establishment was still very powerful. The extremist groups were still there. And when the aid and assistance to Pakistan was cut, we had to adopt harsh economic policies. So in a way, it showed that democracy doesn't pay, and the military was able to reassert itself.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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