Blood Quotes
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If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else.
Caroline Llewellyn
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Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.
Saul Bellow
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Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
William Shakespeare
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Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you’re lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
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Comedy is in my blood. Too bad it's not in my act.
Jack Roy
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What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction
Saint Augustine
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For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
William Shakespeare
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We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.
Martin Luther
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Tout le sang qui coule rouge; All blood is red.
Eugene Bullard
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Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.
Henrik Ibsen
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I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world.
H. L. Mencken
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I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.
Hermann Hesse
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Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!
Thomas Hood
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There is no elegy for those who have been dispossessed of their anger--what remains is a future carved out of banality instead of blood.
Brando Skyhorse
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Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.
William Lilly
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Always Sir Arthur lost so much blood that it was a marvel he stood on his feet, but he was so full of knighthood that knightly he endured the pain.
Thomas Malory
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Examine well your blood.
William Shakespeare
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First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.
John Milton
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Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood.
Edmond Jabes
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We be of one blood, ye and I.
Rudyard Kipling
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For it is a horrible blasphemy to imagine that there is any work by which you should presume to pacify God, since you see that there is nothing which is able to pacify Him but this inestimable price, even the death and the blood of the Son of God, one drop of which is more precious than the whole world.
Martin Luther
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With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.
Adam Kirsch