Flesh Quotes - Page 33

• "Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

  Charles Dickens

  Boys, Want, Said

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.64

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• It was a dagger in the haughty father's heart, an arrow in his brain, to see how the flesh and blood he could not disown clung to this obscure stranger, and he sitting by. Not that he cared to whom his daughter turned, or from whom turned away. The swift sharp agony struck through him, as he thought of what his son might do.

  Charles Dickens

  Daughter, Father, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.52

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• The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female fool.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sacrifice, Atheism, Liberty

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.571, Library of America

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• We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.

  Lynn Shelton

  Real, Mistake, Blood

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• But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

  John Calvin

  Spirit, Regeneration

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.256, Jazzybee Verlag

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• All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Blood, Obedience

  John Owen (1852). “The works ...”, p.122

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• When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison, your story will be boring and uninspired. It's like fugu: The flesh of the pufferfish is extremely tasty, but the roe, the liver, the heart can be lethally toxic.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Toxic, Poison

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• I have always questioned the status of the body in our society. I have always been working on social, political, cultural and religious pressures, which prints them in the flesh and in particular in women's flesh.

  Orlan

  Religious, Political, Body

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

  William Faulkner

  Sleep, Men, Orchids

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• Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.

  Lewis Carroll

  Rude, Tea, Mind

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• the heart,
  this child of myself that resides in the flesh,
  this ultimate signature of the me, the start
  of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.

  Anne Sexton

  Children, Heart, Sleep

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

  Rebecca West

  Sight, Ties, Understanding

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.149, Open Road Media

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• But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

  Umberto Eco

  Laughter, Weakness, Corruption

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.486, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Blood, History, Body

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• Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of the heavens, not as it is: because that even we, though the well beloved of thy Son, yet it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. He looked through the lattice of our flesh and he spake us fair, yea, he set us on fire, and we hasten on his scent. But when he shall appear, then shall we be like him, for we shall see him as he is: as he is, Lord, will our sight be, though the time be not yet.

  Saint Augustine

  Time, Son, Fire

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• A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

  Andre Maurois

  Love You, Love Is, Blood

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• There are a few animals that have won themselves a bad reputation even though they have little or no effect on man. They have won their rating through man's interpretation of their attitude towards lower animals. These animals have been seen feeding in what appears to be a savage manner. But this behavior may perhaps be comparable to a man tearing the flesh off a chicken leg with his teeth.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Attitude, Animal, Men

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• When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.

  David Eagleman

  Eye, Light, Hair

  FaceBook post by David Eagleman from May 31, 2016

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• Practically every false doctrine comes from getting things out of order. God's divine order is salvation, then change; not change and then salvation! If one has to be changed to be saved, that's salvation by works. It is also salvation by the flesh. The truth is, one is cleansed from the sins of the flesh just as he is saved; by yielding to the Holy Spirit and letting Him do His work.

  Jack Hyles

  Christian, Divine Order, Doctrine

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• Thus is the fruit of the Earth taken, its flesh torn. Thus is it given over standing, toward rot. It is the principle of corruption, the death of what is, the birth of what is to be. You are wine.

  Richard Selzer

  Taken, Wine, Principles

  Richard Selzer (1996). “Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is a fact that God wants to destroy every work of our flesh, but He never desires to destroy our personality. He takes no pleasure in transforming us into automata; rather He delights in having us cooperate with Him.

  Watchman Nee

  Personality, Desire, Delight

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.415, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. With the exception of those who die in childhood, most men will be damned.

  Saint Remigius

  Men, Childhood, Adults

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• We don't have to have blood relations in order to be brothers and sisters. Flesh and blood, those are just things that we're made of. In a real family, what matters is our hearts. We care, show concern and love. Anyone can be family too.

  Kim Da-hyun

  Brother, Real, Drama

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• We see the water of a river flowing uninterruptedly and passing away, and all that floats on its surface, rubbish or beams of trees, all pass by. Christian! So does our life. . .I was an infant, and that time has gone. I was an adolescent, and that too has passed. I was a young man, and that too is far behind me. The strong and mature man that I was is no more. My hair turns white, I succumb to age, but that too passes; I approach the end and will go the way of all flesh. I was born in order to die. I die that I may live. Remember me, O Lord, in Thy Kingdom!

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Christian, Spiritual, Strong

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• The horse is flesh and blood on a noble scale

  Jeff Griffin

  Horse, Blood, Noble

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