Famous Quotes & Sayings

Djuna Barnes

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

David Mitchell

The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.

Charlaine Harris

I abjure you,” Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as if this were a ceremony they'd never thought to witness. “I see you no longer. I hunt with you no longer. I share flesh with you no longer.

Brandon Sanderson

If we must put our head into the lion’s mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!

Jane Fonda

I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.

Antonio Banderas

I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.

Dominic Monaghan

What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.

Benjamin Franklin

in eating ecology love murder vegan vegetarianism flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Although, the flesh is weak, the Spirit of God is always willing, and He makes us able.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.

We're trying to flesh out what occurred there.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.

We don't have anything up our sleeve ready to go. There's a lot to flesh out. But we want to at least start the discussion.

It's easy to praise God in the good times, but what about when the storms of your flesh are a-brewin'? Not so easy then!

Marcus Aurelius

Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part.

Gary L. Francione

We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is morally wrong to eat flesh, it is as morally wrong - and possibly more morally wrong - to consume dairy

Charles Bukowski

it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones.

John Lasseter

What I love about Goofy is the flesh on his cheeks. You can almost feel it.

Douglas MacArthur

It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

Adrian Rogers

A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.

Clive Barker

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

Clive Barker

Words are sexier than flesh.

David Foster Wallace

Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?

This sounds like Adobe's pound of flesh to me.

Joseph Rotblat

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.

Portia de Rossi

Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

George Herbert

All flesh is not venison.

Erica Jong

Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.

Erica Jong

Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.