Arteries Quotes - Page 2

• My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick's Day, 1978.

  George Carlin

  Saint, Branches, Descending

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• Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

  William Allen White

  Writing, Dip, Pens

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• I'm searching for a shred of humanity in that shriveled tangle of arteries you call a heart.

  Rachel Vincent

  Heart, Humanity

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “Blood Bound”, p.382, Harlequin

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• Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.

  James Altucher

  Life Is, Clean, Sinuses

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• Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Forgiveness, Eye, Sight

  Florence Scovel Shinn, Laura Berman Fortgang (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More”, p.27, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Broken necks, splattered patellas, severed arteries: These are the things from which dreams are made of.

  Road Warrior Hawk

  Dream, Wrestling, Broken

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• Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable of breathing. If now the physician wishes to practise the rejuvenating art on the latter, he should make silver tubes which fit into each other: open then the artery of the healthy person and introduce one of the tubes into it and fasten it into the artery; thereupon he opens also the artery of the ill person.

  Andreas Libavius

  Strong, Art, Men

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• But there's a juicy artery in your groin," he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide. "Don't you talk dirty," I told him. "I won't listen to that.

  Charlaine Harris

  Dirty, Snakes, Voice

  Charlaine Harris (2001). “Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.14, Penguin

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• Ahead of me lies the familiar litany: weakening of the heart, hardening of the arteries, increasing brittleness of bones, decreases in kidney filtration rates, lower resistance of the immune system, and loss of memory. The list could be extended almost indefinitely. Evolution seems indeed to have arranged things so that all our systems deteriorate, and that we invest in repair only as much as we are worth.

  Jared Diamond

  Life, Memories, Lying

  Jared Diamond (2013). “The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee”, p.118, Random House

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• Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

  William Shakespeare

  Work, Long, Poison

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Love's Labor's Lost”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• We old roosters must be cautious. Don't try to outwit your arteries.

  S. J. Perelman

  Funny, Humorous, Age

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• Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.

  Adam Rapp

  Grief, Rain, Heart

  Adam Rapp (2002). “Nocturne: A Play”, p.79, Macmillan

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• I actually believe 'Sustainability ', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions at play today. And it's this concept which leads me to bottled water, and its multibillion dollar industry.

  Brandon Boyd

  Believe, Heart, Play

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• When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned to love with my whole body. I would let death enter me as you had entered me. You had crept along my blood vessels through the wound, and the blood that circulates returns to the heart. You circulated me, you made me blush like a girl in the hoop of your hands. You were in my arteries and my lymph, you were the colour just under my skin, and if I cut myself, it was you I bled. Red Isolde, alive on my fingers, and always the force of blood pushing you back to my heart.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Girl, Heart, Cutting

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• Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blood, Body, Newspapers

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.245

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• Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed our wanderlust, mimicked our arteries, and charmed our imaginations in a way the static pond or vast and savage ocean never could.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, Ocean, Men

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.62, Bantam

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• ...you don't care because you're all that and I'm just an artery in a dress.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Dresses, Care, Don't Care

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• You travel with a whetstone on your arm? (Kiara) You don’t ever want to kill someone with a dull knife. It takes too long to sever their arteries, or puncture organs, and it makes it even messier than normal. (Nykyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Knives, Long, Dull

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born Of Night: Number 1 in series”, p.93, Hachette UK

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• His cheeks were slick with tears that spilled over his diamond eyes, a ceaseless flow he neither noticed nor appeared to care about. And she had a feeling it was going to be a while before the leaking stopped-an inner artery had been nicked and this was the blood of his heart, spilling out of him, covering him.

  J.R. Ward

  Heart, Eye, Blood

  J.R. Ward (2011). “Lover Unleashed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.293, Penguin

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• Movement from Brenda grabbed Thomas's attention. He looked to see her drop the knife away from Minho and step back, absently wiping the small trace of blood there on her pants. "I really would've killed you, ya know," she said in a slightly scratchy voice. Almost husky. "Charge Jorge again and I'll sever an artery." Minho wiped at his small wound with his thumb, then looked at the bright red smear. "That's one sharp knife. Makes me like you more.

  James Dashner

  Blood, Knives, Voice

  James Dashner (2015). “The Scorch Trials Movie Tie-in Edition (Maze Runner, Book Two)”, p.165, Delacorte Press

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• Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Running, Cancer, Heart

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• Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution.

  Ghassan Kanafani

  Latin, Heart, America

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• Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta greatly enlarged, and beating with excessive force. By means of my finger nail, I scratched through the peritoneum on the left side of the aorta, and then gradually passed my finger between the aorta and the spine, and again penetrated the peritoneum, on the right side of the aorta. I had now my finger under the artery, and by its side I conveyed the blunt aneurismal needle, armed with a single ligature behind it.

  Astley Cooper

  Mean, Nails, Abdomen

  Sir Astley Cooper (1835). “Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery”, p.213

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• If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Rights, People, Wish

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• As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested!

  Hugh Ferriss

  Doctors, Blood, Cities

  Hugh Ferriss (2012). “The Metropolis of Tomorrow”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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