What do you mean I have a predetermined death?” – Nick “Did I stutter?” – Death “No. ” – Nick “Do I look like Webster’s?” – Death “No. ” – Nick “Then you should understand what I said, since I didn’t speak in code. Every mortal creature is born with an expiration date. Some immortals, too. Set by the big clockmaker. But excessive stupidity and moronic tendencies can shorten it. Pissing me off is one really good way to cut yours down to three seconds from now. ” – Death
How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?
I started very early. I started to be interested in design when I was 14 years old, basically, and before I was just like anybody else, any other kid. I was playing with everything. I loved to do stage sets by cutting a piece of board and making a cut in three sides, flipping it down, making the stage.
The Christians are always singing about the blood. Let us give them enough of it! Let us cut their throats and drag them over the altar! And let them drown in their own blood! I dream of the day when the last priest is strangled on the guts of the last preacher.
People are still people no matter how you cut it.
The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out.
Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.
I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.
God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?
More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face.
If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?
Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.
We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.
Okay. Then. . . I can talk. Ask me something. " "Okay. " He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?" I cringe and say, "Well, I. . . I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?". . . "Maybe you were cut out for Candor," he says, "because you're a terrible liar.
Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It's as close to an out-of-body experience as can be achieved short of fifty volts, a circle of warding, a pigeon's claw cut from an albino female of purest white feathers, or a lot of mushrooms.
Without union our independence and liberty would never have been achieved; without union they can never be maintained. Divided into twenty-four, or even a smaller number, of separate communities, we shall see our internal trade burdened with numberless restraints and exactions; communications between distant points and sections obstructed or cut off; our sons made soldiers to deluge with blood the fields they now till in peace. . . The loss of liberty, of all good government, of peace, plenty, and happiness, must inevitably follow a dissolution of the Union.
The pure soul shall mount on native wings,. . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.
Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine.
Never cut what you can untie.