#cutting

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#civilian #control #cutting #eliminate #layer

The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps. ↗

— Charlotte Smith

#clay #cliffs #composed #cutting #descent

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work. ↗

— Andy Summers

#cutting edge #edge #i #like #my own

Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#back #benefits #constituents #cutting #earned

It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#bed #code #cutting #dinner #eat

We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards. ↗

— John Hutton

#cutting #dismantling #does #europe #health

It was strange that in some sort of Jeffrey Dahmer meets Ghandi way I was able to love myself for hating myself. It seemed like a warped sense of love. But it was love without conditions. ↗

— The Hippie

#cutting #ghandi #love #snowflake-obsidian #unconditional

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. ↗

— George Burns

#busy #country #cutting #driving #hair

If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#come #couple #cut #cutting #deep

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. ↗

— John Berger

#critical #cut #cutting #daily #futures