Blood Quotes - Page 17

• Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

  E. V. Lucas

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• Present joys are more to flesh and blood
  Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

  John Dryden

  Happiness, Determination, Joy

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 3, l. 364

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• The white moth to the closing vine,
  The bee to the open clover,
  And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood
  Ever the wide world over.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, White, Vines

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• Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
  Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
  Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
  And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
  Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
  Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
  Yet many a man is making friends with death
  Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Life, Rain, Love Is

  "Love Is Not All" l. 1 (1931)

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• It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Shedding Blood

  "The Devil and the Good Lord" by Jean-Paul Sartre, (Act 1), 1951.

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• Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Wise, Philosophy

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.296, GENERAL PRESS

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• A real spirituality must be rooted in earthliness. Any spirituality that denies the earth, rejects the earth, becomes abstract, becomes airy-fairy. It has no more blood in it; it is no more alive. Yes, Jews are very earth-bound. And what is wrong in having money? One should not be possessive; one should be able to use it. And Jews know how to use it! One should not be miserly. Money has to be created and money has to be used. Money is a beautiful invention, a great blessing, if rightly used. It makes many things possible. Money is a magical phenomenon.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Money, Real

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• The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Heart

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.265, Princeton University Press

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• Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone. But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned people not only do not notice the harm and stupidity of patriotism, they resist every unveiling of it with the greatest obstinacy and passion (with no rational grounds), and continue to praise it as beneficent and elevating.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Passion, Self, Sea

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• The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. We want and need to work with other nations. We want to find solutions other than killing people. Not in our name, not with our money, not with our children's blood.

  Molly Ivins

  Running, Peace, Children

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• [America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

  Theodore Parker

  Mother, Betrayal, America

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• All things are connected, like the blood that runs in your family "The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father." 1854 The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. You must give to the rivers the kindness you would give to any brother.

  Chief Seattle

  Running, Brother, Kindness

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

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Water, Mountain

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci".

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• Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we have no use; For us the purple grape's rich juice. Begone, ye chilling water sprite; Here burning Bacchus rules tonight! Catullus, Selections From Catullus No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.

  Horace

  Strong, Wine, Boys

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• That age is best which is the first
  When youth and blood are warmer.

  Robert Herrick

  Spring, Age, Firsts

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.87

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• What potent blood hath modest May.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spring, May, Modest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “May-day and Other Pieces”, p.12

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• The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

  Carl Sagan

  Humility, Thinking, Compassion

  Carl Sagan (1994). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, Random House Incorporated

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• I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find.

  Tupac Shakur

  Baby, Rapper, Coward

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• It's blood, sweat, sometimes tears.

  Bob Hayes

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• Water is the blood in our veins.

  Levi Eshkol

  Water, Environmental, Veins

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• I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.

  Louis XVI of France

  War, May, France

  Last words of Louis XVI of France before he was executed by guillotine, January 21, 1793.

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• My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Adventure, Giving, Choices

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• Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Commitment

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• You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of a cosmic eye. In the meantime, live like a scientist - even a controversial one with only an ally or two in all the world - and treat life as a grand experiment, blood, sweat, tears and all. Bear in mind that there's no such thing as a failed experiment - only data.

  Jesse Bering

  Life, Eye, Soon Enough

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• Let us serve Him faithfully as our Master. Let us obey Him loyally as our King. Let us study His teachings as our Prophet. Let us work diligently after Him as our Example. Let us look anxiously for Him as our coming redeemer of body as well as soul. But above all let us prize Him as our Sacrifice, and rest our whole weight on His death as atonement for sin. Let His blood be more precious in our eyes every year we live. Whatever else we glory in about Christ, let us glory above all things in His cross.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Jesus, Kings

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