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Letter "C" » cutting
«He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.»
«At the edge of the cliffs, the wind is a smack, and D-day becomes wildly clear: climbing that cutting edge into the bullets.»
«Can't you see you go public and all these people owning you want is dividends and running their stock up, you don't give them that and they sell you out, you do and some bunch of vice presidents some place you never heard of like the ones that turned this out, this wood product they call it, they spot you and launch an offer and all of a sudden you're working for them trimming and cutting and finally bringing in people to turn something out they don't care what the hell it is, there's no pride in their work because what you've got them turning out nobody could be proud of in the first place.»
Author: William Gaddis
| Keywords:
bunch, cutting, dividend, dividends, in the first place, launch, of a sudden, owning, Presidents, Public place, public works, stock, trimmed, trimming, trimmings, trims
«Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.»
«Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.»
«Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.»
Author: Mikhail Gorbachev
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
cutting, cutting off, drive off, heads of state, in the United States, nails, pull off, Soviets, tooth and nail
«A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.»
Author: Rebecca West
(Writer)
| Keywords:
cutting, cut away, dead hand, Dead Things, go over, lamp, revere, revering
«A cutting word is worse than a bowstring; a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not»
«And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the LORD hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; / And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; / And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, / And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.»
«Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs»
Author: Henry Ford
| About:
Business,
Competition
| Keywords:
competition, costs, cutting, cutting edge, cut away, edge, Edge of, keen, keenest, shaved, shaves, shaving
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