Blood Quotes - Page 56

We can invade everyone from Grenada to Afghanistan, but if anyone spills a drop of our blood, it's terrorism.

This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.

I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly into sight with blood on its blade- clear water misleads you.

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.

I don't have anything left. My strength is pouring out of me just as my blood is. I've been in a death-storm countless times before. Is this death in its true form?

My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.

Acting runs through my blood. There is some sort of creative desire to express myself and I would need that outlet. Otherwise I would be a nightmare to live with

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

I've got a bit of Scottish Blood... On my kitchen knife!!

I had older brothers who would pick on me, and injustice always boiled my blood.

You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.

I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.

What disturbs or assures us about race has very little to do with blood or biology. Race is about how you use language, understand your heritage, interpret your history, identify with your kin, figure out what your meaning and worth to a society that places values on you beyond your control. And it's also about what people see you as - or take you to be.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

You have to believe him, because he's going to have your entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and every member of it from the barons to the boot cleaners coming to you for his blood, and you are going to have to deal with it." Attolia smiled. "You make him sound like more trouble than he is worth. "No," said Eddis thoughtfully. "Never more than he is worth.

Those human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or both, or because of memories of colonization and migration; this belief must be important for group formation; furthermore it does not matter whether an objective blood relationship exists.

The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality.

No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky

The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.

My constant fear as a writer as that I will fail to convey the gravity of living. I know that to some degree that sets me up as boorish, but I'll have to live with that, and, honestly, I'd rather err on the side of being "unredeemingly dark," as one reviewer said about blood kin, than on keeping to the sunny side.

The safe time to invest is when there is blood in the streets.