#cut

Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout. ↗

— Terry Savage

#brake #burn #burnout #car #certainly

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

— Jonathan Swift

#desires #feet #like #off #our

If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#architectural #beautiful #before #cut #different

To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it. ↗

— Tom Allen

#beyond #budget #care #children #cuts

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#characters #conscience #cut #failing #fighting

I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows. ↗

— Bea Arthur

#broadway shows #cut #i #really #shows

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again. ↗

— Pericles

#cut #destroyed #easy #get #grow

Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#above #back #big #connecticut #cube

I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year. ↗

— Haley Barbour

#billions #cut #cutting #did #dollars

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#am #art #constantly #i #me