Flesh Quotes - Page 9

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and complacency. It can only be explained by the quality of flesh to become calloused to situations that if faced suddenly would provoke blisters and revolt.

It's the way of all flesh, you know. Aging takes its toll. Like I said, it's the way of all flesh. When the time came and he finally had to step down, the thing that kept him going disappeared.

Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.

The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.

Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This love has got no ceiling

The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more.

Your flesh is killing your spirit. You have forsaken yourself.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.

The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.

The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.

Flesh is weak, but love is strong.

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.

God himself took this human flesh upon him.

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.

Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

How can kindliness rule that man Who eateth other flesh to increase his own?

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.

The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where above all else things that were good would find a way to burrow into you.

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14).

Scientology always makes me think of that movie 'V' where that woman takes off her mask of human flesh to reveal her true, alien self.