Flesh Quotes
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Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!
Pythagoras
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Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
William Shakespeare
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What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?
Gail Godwin
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The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters.
Virchand Gandhi
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I ain't no veggie, like my flesh to the bone, alive and licking on your ice cream cone.
Alice Cooper
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Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?
William Faulkner
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There will be times in your life when you want to pray but feel so far from God that prayer seems impossible. The flesh will tell you that God is against you, that you have gone too far and that He is no longer interested in you. But faith defies the flesh. It contradicts Satan’s lies. It rises up against defeat, gloom, and despair and finds hope in God.
Colin S. Smith
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You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.
Ha Jin
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We get paid in flesh. Our audiences are sluts and whores, each and every one.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
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I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.
Marge Piercy
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Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.
Umberto Eco
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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.
T. S. Eliot
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The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry.
Rabbi Hillel
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If I vibrate with vibrations other than yours, must you conclude that my flesh is insensitive?
Claude Cahun
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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.
Saint Augustine
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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
Willem de Kooning
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Do grant, oh my God, that when my lips approach Yours to kiss You, I may taste the gall that was given to You; when my shoulders lean against Yours, make me feel Your scourging; when my flesh is united with Yours, in the Holy Eucharist, make me feel Your passion; when my head comes near Yours, make me feel Your thorns; when my heart is close to Yours, make me feel Your spear.
Gemma Galgani
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In a sense, human flesh is made of stardust.
Nigel Calder
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THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.
Dambudzo Marechera
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I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.
Thomas Hardy
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Gator lifted the needle and dabbed at the decorated flesh, frowning. The cases on the Mimosa generally had terrible skin, but they were docile enough to make a good filing system, considering you could usually find them where you left them – they didn’t move around much on their own, and unlike other kinds of hardcopy, they seldom got stolen.
Pat Cadigan
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And as the bullet ripped through his flesh, Ralston was consumed by a single thought: I never told her that I loved her.
Sarah MacLean
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Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?
Robin LaFevers
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The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.
Simon Callow