Quotes about Cut Down

I'd like to cut down on the work a little bit. Votes: 4

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down. Votes: 4

It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason. Votes: 4

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. Votes: 4

To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down. Votes: 4

I went from 220 pounds that I cut down for 'Moneyball' to almost 270-280 pounds for 'Ten Year.' Votes: 4

My editor's main job is to cut down my worldbuilding. There's so much fun stuff in there, you know? Votes: 4

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees. Votes: 4

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words. Votes: 4

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds! Votes: 3

Any who stand in my way shall be cut down! Votes: 3

I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree. Votes: 3

Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size. Votes: 3

You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin'! Votes: 3

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment. Votes: 3

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down? Votes: 3

There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well. Votes: 3

If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches. Votes: 3

A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended. Votes: 3

It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign. Votes: 3

Death should not be seen as the end but as a very effective way to cut down expenses. Votes: 3

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down. Votes: 3

It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life. Votes: 3

If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it's not your fault, but you still don't live in a forest. Votes: 3

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees. Votes: 3

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely. Votes: 3

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms. Votes: 3

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation. Votes: 3

The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree. Votes: 3

"¦made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless. Votes: 3

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone. Votes: 3

People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much. Votes: 3

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. Votes: 3

Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than a machine? Votes: 3

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I've cut down on a lot of stuff this summer, just so I can hang out and be a normal kid for a while. Votes: 3

I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important. Votes: 3

At the Feast of Fortune, she'll awaken, and the demigods will be cut down like-- like---" "Like our low prices at Bargain Mart!" Stheno suggested. Votes: 3

If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist? Votes: 3

Where patient needs are complex, we should provide greater support in the community so that patients can cut down on trips to the tertiary hospital. Votes: 3

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents. Votes: 3

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money. Votes: 3

A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them. Votes: 3

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches. Votes: 3

I need to be more under control. I need to calm down a little bit so I can cut down on the little silly errors I get. Votes: 3

I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions. Votes: 3

Once a fight has started, if you get involved in thinking about what to do, you will be cut down by your opponent with the very next blow. Votes: 3

Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to. Votes: 3

For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet. Votes: 3

Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for ourselves and the sea! Votes: 3

Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper. If hemp had not been outlawed, most would still be standing, oxygenating the planet. Votes: 3

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing. Votes: 3

I grew up working on farms. You'd do anything for money. You'd pick blueberries in the summertime for weeks; you'd cut down, like, spruce and fir trees for pulp. Votes: 3

To express our love, we carved a heart into the trunk of a tree, which I later cut down and turned into a cabinet to more efficiently hold all our love. Votes: 3

No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. Votes: 3

Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source. Breathin! (Churchy to Howland) Votes: 3

If you cut down the forest, you know what happens: The whole of Asia turns into a desert. Without water, you're talking civil unrest, war, mud slides - the whole bloody lot. Votes: 3

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial." Votes: 3

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial. Votes: 3

We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation. Votes: 3

Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again. Votes: 3

Black coffee is the latest fad I have picked up. Then there are my endless cups of chai! I'm trying to cut down and keep it to no more than three cups a day. Votes: 3

I noticed the bushes all around where I stood in my fight with the machine guns were all cut down. The bullets went over my head and on either side. But they never touched me. Votes: 3

There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man. Votes: 3

I like working. It is where I feel useful. I have no plans to cut down. I am happy with what I do. There will be a lot more of me yet, that's for sure. Votes: 3

War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war. Votes: 3

So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing. Votes: 3

Mindfulness of the resources we have and respect for where we live, eat, and sleep is a good starting point. Being conscious of your consumption, what goes in and out, will help cut down on wastefulness. Votes: 3

An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn't immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage. Votes: 3

It's just easier to make fun and cut down. It's kind of a way of life in America. If you can make people want to hear what you're going to say, it can be cruel and funny. Votes: 3

You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state. Votes: 3

Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down on another (like TV). This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting. Votes: 3

One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes. Votes: 3

As long as the constitution of my country is not amended to cut down the sizes of the dreams of its citizens, I have the freedom to dream extra largest dreams. I am even dreaming over-size dreams now. Votes: 3

A pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was left, poisoned the water, cut down the trees, killed the Indian who owned the land and called it progress. Votes: 3

You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills. Votes: 3

As long as there is life, there is a potential; and as long as there is a potential, there will be a success! You will sprout again when cut down! You will rise again even when you fall! Votes: 3

Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again Votes: 3

When all the trees have been cut down and all the animals have been hunted to extinction, when all the waters are polluted and the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money. Votes: 3

By now, ten trees must have been cut down just to document my mental health, which Nikki will hate hearing, as she is an avid environmentalist who gave me at least one tree in the rain forest every Christmas Votes: 3

As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again. Votes: 3

My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness,' as he would call it. Votes: 3

If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as ‘Master of Chaos' and the New Testament as ‘The Thing With Three Souls. Votes: 3

The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to do with it all. If you cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower limits. Votes: 3

In a world in which technology is changing at such a fast pace, where demand conditions change very fast, we need to look at a more innovative mechanism to cut down on this rigmarole of many tiers of decision-making processes. Votes: 3

I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now I have warm water with a bit of lemon juice in it. I've cut down on things as I was getting fat. Votes: 3

The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything. Votes: 3

I am crazy about time cuts. I have a theory that the audience tie everything together so they don't see time cuts but the time cuts give us the possibility of jumping in time, which means a psychological evolution can be cut down. Votes: 3

It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.' Votes: 3

Right now there should be a moratorium on the cutting down of old growth in this country. That is a small thing to ask at this point. There is only four percent of old growth left. Ninety-six percent of it has been cut down. Votes: 3

No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens....spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon. Votes: 3

If you're trying to cut down the distance travelled from the farm to your plate, it makes sense to do the same for your pet. If we all shifted our bias towards sustainable pet food, we would be helping more than just our faithful friends. Votes: 3

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. Votes: 3

To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down. Votes: 3

I'm killing two birds at once, so to speak. Animal-based food kills people. This way, by going vegan... we get healthy and save animals. I'm being selfish, too, because if I can get my employees healthier, we cut down on sick days and gain more productivity. Votes: 3

I think if you want to make a good sports movie, you've got to cut down on the sports. You have to make it about people. You can't try to impress people with your knowledge and the X and O's and all the details and the technicalities. Votes: 3

Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books. Votes: 3

Many foreigners have asked me how we made the Danish style. And I've answered that it...was rather a continuous process of purification, and for me of simplification, to cut down to the simplest possible elements of four legs, a seat and combined top rail and arm rest. Votes: 3

When you cut down to the micro-level in the West, I think we have a great deal to be worried about. And it's odd because the American leadership, again in both parties, tends to take comfort in the idea that bin Laden is just an inspirational symbol now. Votes: 3

I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it. Votes: 3

I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up. Votes: 3

We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we dig a little coal. But when we run out of all these things, then we will find out just how good we really are. Votes: 3

We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling - having to make choices between paying for their kids' education or saving for their own retirement. Votes: 3

No one ever cut Katharine Hepburn down to size. Votes: 2

Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news. Votes: 2

Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean. Votes: 2

You can cut a tree down, and it grows back. Once a species goes, it's gone forever. Votes: 2

People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone. Votes: 2

If my mum thinks I'm acting like a diva she'll soon tell me off... She'll cut me down to size! Votes: 2

It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down. Votes: 2

Eating properly is great. I mean you cut the fat down, cut the cholesterol out, but still you got to get your rest and you got to have some form of exercise. Votes: 2

For years I had my hair parted down the middle in a ponytail, tucked down around the sides... Well, I went and cut the bangs, and I've been wearing them ever since. They say it's my trademark. Votes: 2

In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class. Votes: 2

I make a lot of money. I can take a pay cut. All my friends are taking pay cuts that are in the unions, that are - that are farming in Alabama or whatever it is. I can surely take a pay cut, too, not cutting down my show or - or the people that work for me, I can take a pay cut. Votes: 2

If any man tries to stop us, cut him down. Votes: 0

Words cut through my skin, tears roll down my chin Votes: 0

Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul Votes: 0

How high does a sycamore grow? If you cut it down, then you'll never know. Votes: 0

It used to take years to become a junkie. But crack cut that down to 37 minutes. Votes: 0

I feel so low that instead of picking myself up I have to cut others down. Votes: 0

My New Year's resolution is to cut my diet sodas down to two cans a day! Votes: 0

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Votes: 0

Women need to support other women, not cut them down. And that goes for recognizable women too. Votes: 0

The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down. Votes: 0

Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it. Votes: 0

This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down... Votes: 0

What do you call a stock that's down 90%? A stock that was down 80% and then got cut in half. Votes: 0

In these tough economic times, everybody has to cut back. I am down to three tabs of ecstasy a day. Votes: 0

The boys are in such a mood that if someone introduced the Ten Commandments, they'd cut them down to seven Votes: 0

My wife has cut our lovemaking down to once a month, but I know two guys she's cut out entirely. Votes: 0

It is not easy writing someone a postcard. The size and shape of the card cut you down to size... Votes: 0

Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity. Votes: 0

So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down. Votes: 0

The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip. Votes: 0

I can remember when pants were pants. You wore them for twenty years, then you cut them down for pan scrubs. Or quilts. Votes: 0

Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals. Votes: 0

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies. Votes: 0

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. Votes: 0

See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people. Votes: 0

Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one! Votes: 0

I feel that we live in an age where everyone's trying to reduce, and soundbite, and cut it down to140 characters, and that's not what life is. Votes: 0

Don't let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life. Votes: 0

It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out, also the job. Votes: 0

I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down. Votes: 0

Hush little baby, Dont you cry, Dont cut your arms, Dont say goodbye. Put down that razor, Put down that light, It maybe hard but, You'll win this fight. Votes: 0

You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore. Votes: 0

Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus. Votes: 0