Chopping Block Quotes

#1. It seemed to Rand like years since there had not been firewood to split. But complaining would not keep the house warm, so he fetched the axe, propped up bow and quiver beside the chopping block, and got to work. Pine for a quick, hot flame, and oak for long burning.

Robert Jordan

#2. Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

Annie Dillard

#3. It's tough being a dictator, but I've always thought it must be tougher being a hanger-on to a dictator. The late nights spent listening to his crazed ranting, the weary rictus grin from smiling at bad jokes, the draining knowledge that one misjudged comment could land you on the chopping block.

John Niven

#4. At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19 ... and it was devastating.

Katy Perry

#5. She steeled her spine. "Like Boleyn to the chopping block."
Anna smirked. "Queen of England, are we?"
Mara shrugged. "Something to aspire to.

Sarah MacLean

#6. I had gotten to the point where I just didn't want to perform anymore - I didn't want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.

Guillermo Del Toro

#7. The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.

Elisha Cuthbert

#8. Anytime you lose one fight in the UFC, you kind of have to feel like you are on the chopping block. There is so much competition in this sport.

Charlie Brenneman

#9. The specific trigger for me was when the President [Barack Obama] put Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block. Why I got into the race - it just seemed unconscionable that the Democrats were leading the charge.

Jill Stein

#10. What do we got on the chopping block? And by the way, I'm smarter than you. My IQ is off the charts, man. If the chart only reached fifty, then yeah. No need to tax his poor brain with numbers, though.

Gena Showalter

#11. Nothing got more serious than allowing a tortoise to crawl across your kitchen floor.

J. Lynn

#12. Everything that you want in life, is possible. But the reflection in the mirror will always show who is reflecting. One can't change the reflection without changing himself.

Robin Sacredfire

#13. At Calvary, there was a great healing transfer where the responsibility for healing was switched from God giving it, to you receiving it.

Rod Parsley

#14. Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.

Yuan T. Lee

#15. We always glorify war, but why? We have war memorials everywhere but I never saw a peace memorial yet. We teach our children war game. We let them play game which is not other than a legal war but we expect peace from them. How foolish that could be!

Debasish Mridha

#16. The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign.

John O'Donohue

#17. A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it.

Aman Jassal

#18. In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

Neil Gaiman

#19. Love and respect changes everything.

Bryant McGill

#20. To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.

Karen Kain

#21. The earth's orbit didn't slow down. The world didn't stop falling.
Slowly, very, very slowly, Michael started to sink to his knees.

B.R. Collins

#22. You only win when you let others win.

Debasish Mridha

#23. The Son of God fasted because He knew there were supernatural things that could only be released that way.

Jentezen Franklin

#24. When you love someone and they love you, you deserve to be the most important thing to them, as important as breathing.

Courtney Cole

#25. Is anything sadder than a trainThat leaves when it's supposed to,That has only one voice,Only one route?There's nothing sadder.Except perhaps a cart horse,Shut between two shaftsAnd unable even to look sideways.

Primo Levi