Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shashi Tharoor

In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.

George Orwell

Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.

George R. R. Martin

You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.

George R. R. Martin

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

George R. R. Martin

I will take what is mine with fire and blood.

George R. R. Martin

You promised him vengeance as well.' 'I promised him justice.' 'Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood." - Tywin & Tyrion

George R. R. Martin

I am the blood of the dragon. Do not presume to teach me lessons.

Garth Ennis

I'm the one who steps from the shadows, all trenchcoat and cigarette and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness. Oh, I've got it all sewn up. I can save you. If it takes the last drop of your blood, I'll drive your demons away. I'll kick them in the bollocks and spit on them when they're down and then I'll be gone back into darkness, leaving only a nod and a wink and a wisecrack. I walk my path alone... who would walk with me?

Garth Nix

Blood trickled down his chin as he was hauled up onto his knees, the golden rope securing his arms behind him and his ankles together. Arthur looked up and saw the fizzing sparkling crown coming down. I’m Arthur Penhaligon, he thought desperately... The crown was wedged tightly upon his head- and Arthur fell silently screaming into darkness.

Barry Alvarez

They came in and took my blood pressure about 10 minutes after the game, and it was off the charts,

They waste their whole day, so they won't go unless they are really sick. Some people coming into the hospital are dying. They didn't know they had high blood pressure and already had a stroke. They just come in to die.

They'll notice more energy less stress, more vigor and when they go for their checkup, they will probably be told, over time, that their blood pressure is lower and their cholesterol is lower.

They'll notice more energy, less stress, more vigor and when they go for their checkup, they will probably be told, over time, that their blood pressure is lower and their cholesterol is lower.

They'll do quite a lot of medical tests, they'll take blood tests, urine tests, and they will also work out what kind of space food works for them,

Hans Christian Andersen

Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?" "Yes," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.

Gerard Butler

Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.

Herman Melville

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

Jeffrey Eugenides

It was as if, before she`d met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now ir was all oxygenated and red. She was petrified of becoming the half-alive person she`d been before.

James A. Garfield

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

James A. Baldwin

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

Christopher Heyerdahl

Every episode of 'True Blood' is like shooting a low budget feature.

Christopher Isherwood

I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How good to be in a body - even this old beat-up carcass - that still has warm blood and live semen and rich marrow and wholesome flesh!

Fulton J. Sheen

To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.

Fulton J. Sheen

The world is rapidly being divided into two camps, the comradeship of anti-Christ and the brotherhood of Christ. The lines between these two are being drawn. How long the battle will be we know not whether swords will have to be unsheathed we know not whether blood will have to be shed we know not whether it will be an armed conflict we know not. But in a conflict between truth and darkness, truth cannot lose.

Hosea Ballou

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Gore Vidal

'Politics' is made up of two words, 'poli,' which is Greek for 'many,' and 'tics,' which are blood-sucking insects.

Gina McCarthy

I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It is written in my life-blood, such that it is, thick or thin; and I can no other.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.

Immanuel Kant

Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

Jill Scott

'True Blood' excites me. It scares me, but it excites me.

Jessica Hagedorn

[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.