Whittled Away Quotes

#1. There was a chemical solution to all of America's food needs, which had been whittled away for years and years and honed down with precision to train the public that everything they needed to put on the table for their family came in a box, bottle or can.

Kenneth Eade

#2. That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and all the time we're being carved, and shaped, and whittled away.

Lauren Oliver

#3. Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

Russell Baker

#4. For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.

Bob Barr

#5. Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret the First Amendment as a prohibition against religious activity on public property.

Tim LaHaye

#6. Isn't it strange
when you're single, all you see is couples, and when you're part of a couple, all you see are hookers.

Jim Gaffigan

#7. Biologically, I'm 10. Chronologically, I'm 33. In hockey years, I'm 66.

Mark Messier

#8. I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.

Busy Philipps

#9. I've always admired your ability to make jokes when faced with adversity.

Jim Butcher

#10. Through my college years, topping that ridge had always given me a great sense of being home, but time had diminished the emotion and I had begun to suspect that home was less a place than an empty page.

Larry McMurtry

#11. You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next.

Sophie Kinsella

#12. I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

Rebecca Solnit

#13. There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

Auguste Rodin

#14. The harder they hit, the more encouraged I get.

Hillary Clinton

#15. Sleep is crucial and I tend to find when the sun is shining I find it much more difficult to get that sense of sleep.

DJ Spooky

#16. Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

David K. Shipler

#17. I'm doing what I've always done. Learning from the mistakes of others who take my advice.

Nitya Prakash

#18. Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister.

Marian Keyes

#19. A saint belongs to all humanity.

Elif Shafak