Bloody Quotes - Page 21

• I love physical stuff. I love jumping in and getting my nose bloody. I don't really mind it. I think that, if you don't come out with a few cuts and scrapes, you haven't really been putting the effort it.

  Tom Weston-Jones

  Cutting, Thinking, Jumping

  Source: collider.com

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• If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?

  Charles L. Grant

  Player, People, Directors

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• There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.

  Warren Beatty

  Today, Ships, Beatty

  "The Rules of the Game : Jutland and British Naval Command" by Andrew Gordon, (p. 120), 2005.

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• I've got what my mother's got - however bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness.

  Princess Diana

  Mother, Feelings, Most Amazing

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• Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.

  John B. S. Haldane

  God, Sacrifice, Christianity

  John B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1945). “Possible Worlds”, p.231, Transaction Publishers

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• Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Noses, May

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• Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.

  John le Carre

  Party, Desert, Disillusionment

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• I have lived 78 years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

  Lord Randolph Churchill

  Years, Hearing, Cambodia

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• It could be clearly proved that by a practical nullification [by the South] of the Fifteenth Amendment the Republicans have for several years been deprived of a majority in both the House and Senate. The failure of the South to faithfully observe the Fifteenth Amendment is the cause of the failure of all efforts towards complete pacification. It is on this hook that the bloody shirt now hangs.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Years, House, Effort

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• A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.

  James A. Garfield

  War, Fate, Jewels

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1”, p.29, Best Books on

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• In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends,
  To reap the harvest of perpetual peace
  By this one bloody trial of sharp war.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Names

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.114

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• Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification: an optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise.

  Milan Kundera

  Thinking, Numbers, Optimism

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• When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?

  George Orwell

  Brother, Sex, Cheer

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Birth, Virtue, Crime

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.91, JHU Press

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• From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with a comedy twist to it.

  Tom Six

  Kids, Drawing, Twists

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• Being a naive 20-something I didn't think that I could just go to the screen cartoonist's union, that I was a member of, and scream bloody murder and they would have jumped all over this guy and said, "Oh, but yes he does get screen credit."

  Mike Royer

  Thinking, Guy, Doe

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Plot, World

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• I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, India, May

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• I'm sick of the cover-ups, I'm sick of the lies, and so are the bloody veterans, that come out daily of the department's mouth.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Lying, Sick, Cover Ups

  "Tony Abbott signals extending military campaign to Syria - politics live" by Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2015.

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• Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Beautiful, Fighting, Past

  "'Evil Can also Be Beautiful'". Interview with Matthias Matussek and Joachim Kronsbein, www.spiegel.de. March 27, 2006.

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• The bloody years of war and all the atrocities in European history have taught the Europeans that secular politics free of religious hatred is mainly a question of peace. This concept is not anchored in the same way in the consciousness of Turks, which has to do with the fact that the secular was forced upon us by the army.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Religious, War, Army

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The first real thing was Divine as Jackie Kennedy [in Eat Your Makeup]. His mother found the bloody Jackie Kennedy outfit in the boot of his car and said, 'What is this?" and Divine said, "I am Jackie Kennedy!" His mother just changed the subject; she didn't know what to say.

  John Waters

  Mother, Real, Makeup

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Sometimes I feel embarrassed because I'll tell the kids if someone is driving really slow or cutting in, I'll say "Bloody Asian drivers." But I feel justified in saying it because I'm Asian.

  Pearl Tan

  Kids, Cutting, Asian

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. Not because I'm such a high brow intellectual and bloody European. But it's just something that I was never into. Not because of any superiority. I don't know why.

  Christoph Waltz

  Book, Intellectual, Culture

  Source: collider.com

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• Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

  Voltaire

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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