Lopped Quotes

#1. Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!

Swami Vivekananda

#2. Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers.

Jean-Paul Marat

#3. I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

Richard Linklater

#4. Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my childhood ends forever. I see what poets are.

Hal Porter

#5. To me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood ...

Lord Chesterfield

#6. I tell you, Madame, if one gave birth to a heart on a plate, it would say "Love" and twitch like the lopped leg of a frog.

Djuna Barnes

#7. If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

Andrew Johnson

#8. The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

Jonathan Swift

#9. Across the room, Jason soared into the air and lopped the goddess's head off. Sadly, the head flew right back into place. "Unacceptable," Hygeia said calmly. "Decapitation is not a healthy lifestyle choice.

Rick Riordan

#10. They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people, and in a time of need leaders pop up among us like mushrooms.

John Steinbeck

#11. A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.

Ivan Turgenev

#12. (Live + Think) x Different = Write Different

Bob N. Boguslavski

#13. Basically, they had asked me if I would shave my head or wear a bald cap. I said look, if you are doing a series for five years I would want to shave my hair because I would go bald with all the gum and glue from the bald cap.

Persis Khambatta

#14. The day should come when all of the forms of life ... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.

William O. Douglas

#15. I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.

Ned Vizzini

#16. I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#17. My idols have always stuck to their guns and said what they want to do.

Richard Patrick

#18. Some of us don't appreciate such salty language." My smile sharpened. "Sorry, ma'am," I drawled. "But I can assure you that cursing is going to be the least of my sins today.

Jennifer Estep

#19. I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.

Jane McGonigal

#20. I am open to comments, I accept with with all humility, or at least what I can muster at short notice.

Neil Leckman

#21. Individuation is an attainment of spiritual maturity frighteningly seldom attained in today's mono-cultures.

Bryant McGill