Quotes with cut-throat

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  • Jonathan Swift In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Blake Farenthold In cutting government, we cut a huge variety of programs, a lot of which I would have liked to see increase, and a lot of which I'd like to see decreased more.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Alejandro Amenabar In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.
    Alejandro Amenabar
    Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer (1972 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Henry Miller In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • John Ruskin It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bobby Darin It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Sallust It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Henry Miller It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Aldous Huxley It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Antoine Lavoisier It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Carol Lynley It was strange being an adolescent fantasy for other people. I was so cut off from the real world. I went straight into the movies as a teenybopper, and had a very protracted adolescence myself. I was divorced when I was 20, but I was an adolescent until I was 26. Then I was in Europe, living with this fellow and he kind of helped me out. Told me some things about myself.
    Interview by Roger Ebert, December 4, 1972
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  • Ben Shapiro It was the Obama administration that cut a faux deal with the Iranians that will not disarm Iran of its nuclear capabilities, and will in fact accelerate their nuclear development.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Caitlin Stasey It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.
    Caitlin Stasey
    Australian actress (1990 - )
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  • Mark Twain Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ''blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Boris Pasternak Like a beast in a pen, I'm cut off
    From my friends, freedom, the Sun.
    But the hunters are gaining ground;
    I've nowhere else to run.
    Selected Poems (1983)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Bil Keane Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
    Bil Keane
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2011)
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  • Arlie Russell Hochschild Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
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  • James Russell Lowell Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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