Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Gregory

People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.

Desmond Tutu

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

Alfred de Musset

Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!

Alfred Hitchcock

I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened; they revolt me. That round white thing without any holes, and when you break it, inside there’s that yellow thing, round, without any holes… Brrr! Have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.

Amy Schumer

I donated blood today. That's what I call getting an AIDS test.

Amy Tan

And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.

Aloe Blacc

People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.

Andy Weir

If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.

Angel Olsen

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.

Anatole France

Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.

Anne Enright

Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.

Anita Shreve

And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face--could be at times, such a thing of beauty.

Andrew Weil

The underlying idea is that you can prevent disease by balancing your body's pH... None of these claims are true. Furthermore, your body needs absolutely no help in adjusting its pH. Normally, the pH of blood and most body fluids is near seven, which is close to neutral. This is under very tight biological control because all of the chemical reactions that maintain life depend on it. Unless you have serious respiratory or kidney problems, body pH will remain in balance no matter what you eat or drink.

Chuck Palahniuk

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.

Chuck Palahniuk

Cults make people sing so hard for so long - because it over-oxygenates the blood and sets them up to faint.

Christopher Paolini

Root of a tree, fruit of a vine, let me pass by this blood of mine.

Christopher Moore

And he was like "The sedative in the blood, blah, blah, four hours, blah, blah, nerdspeak, geektalk -" -Abby

Amos Bronson Alcott

Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.

Anne Rivers Siddons

That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness...

Anne Sexton

Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the fingers are rebuilt. They dance with yours.

Anthony Horowitz

The CIA agent looked more dead than alive. Alex wondered if he had been hit, but there was no sign of any blood. Perhaps he was in shock.

Anthony Kiedis

Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.

Alice Sebold

Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.

Abraham Lincoln

And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil.

Andy Goldsworthy

Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.

Amy Irving

You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality.

Amy Lowell

Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.

Allen Tate

What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.

Andy Dick

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

Andrea Jung

No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.

Andrea Dworkin

There is nothing as dangerous as an unembodied principle: no matter what blood flows, the principle comes first. The First Amendment absolutists operate precisely on unembodied principle ...

Andrea Dworkin

We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators.

Aeschylus

This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.