Bloody Quotes - Page 8

• Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a true happiness, indeed the supreme happiness; but it is founded upon sorrow.

  Josef Pieper

  Evil, Historical, Sorrow

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• I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

  Winston Churchill

  Eight, Years, Arrogance

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• A few months ago, and again this week, bin Laden publicly vowed to publicly wage a terrorist war against America, saying, and I quote, "We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They're all targets." Their mission is murder, and their history is bloody.

  William J. Clinton

  War, Military, America

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• What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkey eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.

  Alice Munro

  Eye, Turkeys, Eggs

  Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

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• If you're going to do something that looks evil, don't smear it with icing and pretend it's good; just bloody well do it and keep your eyes peeled.

  Robertson Davies

  Eye, Evil, Looks

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• The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.

  Terry Pratchett

  Balance, Four, Persuasion

  "The Light Fantastic". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1986.

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• All of man’s work is a bloody business. That fact, today, is considered foolish, affairs are finished cleverly with words alone, and jobs that require effort are avoided. I would like young men to have some understanding of this.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Jobs, Men, Effort

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.53, Bottom of the Hill

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• Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Socialist

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• Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.

  Sam Peckinpah

  Fun, Simple, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've signed dicks, asses, parole cards, a colostomy bag while it was still pumping. A couple of years ago, I signed a bloody Tampax. That's one you don't forget. I'm not asking for someone to top that!

  John Waters

  Couple, Years, Bags

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• Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.

  Bruce Catton

  Fun, War, Army

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• Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war.

  Kitty Kelley

  War, Men, White

  "Capturing Camelot" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

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• For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

  James Buchan

  Suicide, Giving, Victory

  "Inside the mind of a terrorist". www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2001.

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• I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to other people at the time and behaved badly, but we didn't seem to have any choice. We were very happy for nearly 50 years and would still be together if it wasn't for the bloody railways.

  Nina Bawden

  Husband, Years, People

  Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

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• I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.

  Sean Durkin

  Firsts, Anticipation, Horror

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.

  Len Goodman

  People, Nerves, Please

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• Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Beautiful, Writing, Light

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Living in Hope and History”, p.199, A&C Black

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• In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

  Michael Imperioli

  Drama, America, Challenges

  "The king of New York". Interview With Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2001.

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• I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.

  Alex Kapranos

  Mcdonalds, Buns, Cows

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2010

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• My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Lines, Argument

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• I'm blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We're all physical and athletic and like to work out, like to be outside, like to throw the ball around. We spent our entire childhoods on some kind of corner or in a field. We still do a Turkey Bowl every Thanksgiving. It gets competitive, man. Bloody.

  Danny Pino

  Brother, Blessed, Men

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• I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age.

  Regis Philbin

  Thinking, Doctors, Years

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• I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it?

  Juno Temple

  Scripts, Projects, Studios

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• The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Men, People

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• I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone! ' but how can do that without a bloody phone?

  Sophie Kinsella

  Phones, Hands, Want

  Sophie Kinsella (2012). “I've Got Your Number”, p.16, Random House

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