Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

Marianne Williamson

Focus on guilt will always breed fear, and focus on innocence will always breed love. Any time we project guilt onto someone else, we are fortifying the experience of guilt within ourselves. Like blood on Lady MacBeth's hands, we cannot remove our own guilty feelings as long as we are judging others.

Poppy Z. Brite

Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.

Nelson Mandela

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

Kristen Wiig

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

Margaret Atwood

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

Kid Cudi

Blood sweat and tears homie I'm made of it

Mark Twain

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is." Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to – until I was 13. Then I realised what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life.

Leonardo da Vinci

The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

Oscar Wilde

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

Patrick Rothfuss

Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

Patrick Rothfuss

That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

Park Dietz

Consider surgeons and their work. It's unthinkable to put your hands in the warm blood of another human's gut. Even with rubber gloves on. Who'd want to do that? But surgeons get over it.

Park Chan-wook

Certainly, it includes that. I want the story to be interpreted in as many ways as possible, and of course, the bad blood aspect of it included. For instance, perhaps this is a story not about the hereditary nature of evil, but rather you could interpret it from a different perspective, too.

Learned Hand

The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts towards justice; it must feel the circulation of the communal blood or it will wither and drop off, a useless member.

Lauren Oliver

An itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting me from the inside, making me want to scream, jump, squirm. I ran.

Pablo Picasso

People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.

Paul Christopher

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

Patricia McCormick

Then I place the blade next to the skine on my palm. A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood tipped up at me and my body spiraled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next. What happened next was thet a perfect, straight line of blood bloomed from under the blade.The line grow into a long, Fat bubbel, A lush crimson bubbel that got bigger and bigger. I watch from above, waiting to see how big it would get before it burst. when it did, I felt awesome. Satisfied, finally. Then exhausted.

Oscar Wilde

We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.

Billy Thornton

For our anniversary, I had a certificate drawn up that states I can never leave Angelina for eternity. It has the seal of the great state of Louisiana on it. I signed it in my own blood with a paintbrush.

For other medical conditions, there are clear-cut treatment goals. For epilepsy, it is eliminating seizures. For high blood pressure, it is to reduce blood pressure to a normal range. It is equally important to clearly outline goals of treatment for depression.

John Dryden

For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.

Gregory Maguire

To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.

Harold Clurman

Change the molecules, juices in the blood, so they do things differently.

J. M. Coetzee

But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on a breeze, he has begun to float towards his end. He sees it quite clearly, and it fills him with (the word will not go away) despair. The blood of life is leaving his body and despair is taking its place, despair that is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

J. K. Rowling

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Natalia Tena

Like a lot of people, I love a bit of blood and gore.

Keegan-Michael Key

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.

Kim Harrison

The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed in the oblivion of whatever drug they had given me.

Kim Harrison

Death and blood didn’t turn on a vampire. Fear and the chance to take blood did. There was a difference.

Kim Harrison

Keep your vampire mitts off me. I'm not your friggin' blood toy.