Flesh Quotes - Page 15

Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast.

It is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a sheep. So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us.

If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.

We are capitalism made flesh.

There is a lot of flesh to be put on the bones - but there is at least an opening for a more pragmatic, less ideological debate about how to build economies that work for people, within the limits of our planet.

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.

None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.

I'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil.

The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.

The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.

At the same time I really enjoy painting flesh.

I - a philosopher - live in the cage of flesh and blood.

For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to "kill the flesh" is to starve it; to stop feeding it.

In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding skeleton beneath the flesh is never acknowledged by us and, when at last it defines itself, is after all an obscenity.

Alice Stewart [is] a much underestimated scientist who has been an indomitable challenger of the establishment and a thorn in the flesh of the nuclear industry.

Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.

I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.

These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.

Any script, even like The Founder, if it's something that I imagine myself playing this character or that character - any of the characters, basically - how do we flesh these characters out to be good enough to have amazing actors that come in that make it really difficult for them to say no? Even though I'm not right for any of those parts, that's just kind of how we go about it.

Flesh forgets. Bone remembers.

My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.

Art is science made flesh.