Bloody Quotes - Page 15

• My style icon is anyone who makes a bloody effort

  Isabella Blow

  Icons, Effort, Style

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• A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.

  T. R. Fehrenbach

  Fighting, America, People

  T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War”, p.480, Open Road Media

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• I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.

  Edward Hirsch

  Art, Blood, Hands

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• President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.

  Pete Hegseth

  War, Fighting, Enemy

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• George Jessel’s newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town’s paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka.

  Lucius Beebe

  Pick Me Up, Towns, Receiving

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• The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!

  Faiz Ahmad Faiz

  Firsts, Language, Translators

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• It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sight, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1839). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.86

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• The American dream? We don't have a dream in Britain because we're bloody awake!

  Al Murray

  Dream, America, World

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• Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

  Athol Fugard

  People, Fool, Life Is

  Athol Fugard (2000). “Port Elizabeth Plays”, p.27, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn't. Or wasn't. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist.

  Mal Peet

  Cousin, Believe, Kissing

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• Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Freedom, Hypocrite, Hands

  Andrei D. Sakharov (1968). “Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom”

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• The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships, or being patronised by zoologists, is to make bloody certain humans don't find out about it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Animal, Intelligent

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• Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

  Winston Churchill

  Beautiful, Cutting, Tree

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• Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

  Ezra Pound

  Latin, Thinking, Greek

  Ezra Pound (1950). “The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941”, p.339, New Directions Publishing

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• You men of the einsatzgruppen are called upon to fulfill a repulsive duty. But you are soldiers who have to carry out every order unconditionally. You have a responsibility before God and Hitler for everything that is happening. I myself hate this bloody business and I have been moved to the depths of my soul. But I am obeying the highest law by doing my duty. Man must defend himself against bedbugs and rats, against vermin.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Hate, Responsibility, Men

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• I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can

  Sylvia Plath

  Beer, Moon, Laughing

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• Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Deeds

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.234

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• He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan)

  Kerry Packer

  Leadership, Talking, Lovable

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• We sat and kissed and kissed until our lips were bloody. I could have gone on kissing her for a year.

  Ryan O'Neal

  Kissing, Years, Gone

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• You bloody silly fool!

  Prince Philip

  Silly, Fool, Classic

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• What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

  Prince Philip

  Singers, Awful, Classic

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• People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Mistake, Failure, People

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• Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.

  Budd Schulberg

  Sports, Thinking, Games

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• I’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out?

  Amanda Hocking

  Trying, Cockroaches

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.541, Pan Macmillan

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• Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat.

  Michael Hussey

  Hard Work, Bats, Three

  "Sachin Tendulkar's 'three metre wide bat' makes Test cricket tough: Michael Hussey". www.dnaindia.com. October 19, 2010.

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