Quotes with cut-throat

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  • Mark Twain More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Raymond Chandler Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Billy Idol My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.
    Billy Idol
    English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor (1955 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Obama not only falsely represented the Republican position - as usual - he shamelessly pretended that he was The One 'fighting so hard to cut middle-class taxes.' Baloney!
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
    The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography (1978 edition), U of Nebraska Press
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Jean Cocteau One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Bob Richards One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Ben Carson One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Robert Anthony Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing.
    Robert Anthony
    American psychologist and self-help writer
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  • Aaron Carter People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
    Aaron Carter
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor (1987 - )
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  • Jean Genet Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Robert Frost Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • John Berger 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
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Bill Hybels Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bob Newhart Probably the best advice I ever got in my life was from the head of the accounting department, Mr. Hutchinson, I believe at the Glidden Company in Chicago, and he told me, 'You really aren't cut out for accounting.'
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen She went away, she cut me like a knife
    Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life
    In just a glance, down here on magic street
    Loves a fool's dance
    And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.
    Magic (2007) Girls in Their Summer Clothes
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Bruce Springsteen Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull,
    And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull.
    At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
    and a freight train running through the middle of my head.
    Only you can cool my desire.
    Oh, I'm on fire.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Im On Fire
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Blanche Lincoln Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Bruno Maag The argument that a serif font is too fussy doesn't cut it anymore. You want a font where the letter forms are not ambiguous.
    Bruno Maag
    Swiss type designer and businessman (1962 - )
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