Blood Quotes
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The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to move to the same beat. The athlete wanted to check what has been described as the ultimate workout. The romantic craved seeing if the quirkiness of the sport - there is after all, little practical value to oarsmanship in the postindustrial age - stirred his blood.
Barry S. Strauss
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I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.
Erica Jong
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I had my young eyes opened by the impersonal blood and guts of news photography. I was running the gamut every low man on the totem pole runs - country clubs to mass murder.
Burk Uzzle
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The boy in war is, to an extent found in almost no other form of work, inextricably bound up with the men and materials of his labor. … He is a fragment of American earth wedged into an open hillside in Korea and reworked by its unbearable sun and rain. … He is a light brown vessel of red Australian blood that will soon be opened and emptied across the rocks and ridges of Gallipoli from which he can never again become distinguishable.
Elaine Scarry
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Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.
Walter Besant
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I paraphrase Lord Rothschild: ‘The time to buy is when there's blood on the streets.'
David Dreman
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It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Civilization is a terrible plant, which grows and blooms if its watered with tears and blood.
Arturo Graf
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I know real dirt looks nothing like this. Nothing like soft blood flecked with black bone.
Catherynne M. Valente
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And everywhere there were parents – parents mouse-like, parents aggressive, parents ostentatious, parents modest, parents subdued, parents animated: a growing rout lured together under the radiant porcelain sky – and for what? the headmaster wondered. It was improbable that they enjoyed themselves. It was improbable, even, that their offspring enjoyed themselves. And yet there was a glamour about it all which stirred the blood, and the headmaster himself, as he contemplated the spectacle, was not immune.
Edmund Crispin
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Therefore, wheat products elevate blood sugar levels more than virtually any other carbohydrate, from beans to candy bars.
William Davis
