Lopping Off 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

You do know I am my father's son, right? People don't talk to me that way and live. (Syn)
Oh, like I fear you. Never. Besides, a fight might dislodge whatever has crawled up your sphincter and bring back the much nicer version of you. (Shahara) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age. — Beryl Bainbridge

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

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

When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst. — Kirsten Dunst

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

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

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

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

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

Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don't want to hear about it, nor us. I refuse to be silenced and I refuse to be trivialized, even if I do not say what I have to say perfectly. — Audre Lorde

The violence present in our hearts, wounded by sin, is also reflected in the symptoms of sickness evident in the soil, in the water, in the air and in all forms of life. — Anonymous