Lopping Quotes & Sayings

It is a fundamental rule with me not to vote for a loan or tax bill till I am satisfied it is necessary for the public service, and then not if the deficiency can be avoided by lopping off unnecessary objects of expenditure or the enforcement of an exact and judicious economy in the public disbursements. — John C. Calhoun

And then it happened. This massive heart attack that brought the brilliant Julian Mantle back down to earth and reconnected him to his mortality. Right in the middle of courtroom number seven on a Monday morning, the same courtroom where we had won the Mother of All Murder Trials. — Robin S. Sharma

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Peace on earth (Luke 2:14) is salvation for, not from, the world. — Markus Barth

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

He had not spoken to a desirable woman who was not at some level his enemy or a whore since 1944. — Michael Chabon

Self-destruction is inevitable because existence is a full-time job. — Benjamin DeHaven

When there aren't enough hats to go around the problem isn't solved by lopping off some heads. — G.K. Chesterton

Whether you're a memoirist or not, there's a psychic cost for lopping yourself off from the past: — Mary Karr

You probably had more adventures today than I'll have in a lifetime. Walking must seem tame to you."
"Elle, you're more of an adventure than anything that's ever happened to me. — Jill Shalvis

Instead, ourselves the beneficiaries of this kind of benign neglect, we now measure success as the extent to which we manage to keep our children monitored, tethered, tied to us. — Joan Didion

Is everybody that depressed? It's a depressing feeling to me. You know: "I lost my baby." I don't care if you lost your baby, I care if you're feeling OK. Don't tell me your problem - tell me what good's been happening to you. — Alice Cooper

Learn this well to last ride is never the las ride and the and is no the end — Richard A. Rowland

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action. — John Maynard Smith

Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family. — Stephen King

Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index. — Jasper Fforde

The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation upon our self-willed identity. — Thomas Merton

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes. — Jonathan Swift

A healthier, less impoverished planet is good for all of us. From an economic standpoint, it allows people to contribute more to the marketplace and lead productive lives. U.S. foreign assistance opens new markets to U.S. goods and services and creates new trading partners and allies. — Mike Huckabee

If the government did a good job of publicizing this information, my products wouldn't sell. — Matthew Lesko

I deserve it all because I'm willing to give it all. I would have
worked through the darkness with you, Rule. What I won't do is watch you walk
away from me every time something happens that has the potential to hurt you — Jay Crownover

That makes about as much sense as lopping off your foot to avoid twisting an ankle. — Eileen Wilks