Veins Quotes - Page 2

• Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Friendship, Character, Tests

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.16, World Wisdom, Inc

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• I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

  Alex Kapranos

  Inspirational, Dance, Blood

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

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• It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.

  Paul Gallico

  Littles, Pages, White Paper

  Paul Gallico (1946). “Confessions of a Story Writer”, New York, A. A. Knopf

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• Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

  Edward Kennedy

  Integrity, Lying, Hype

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Happy are men who yet before they are killed
  Can let their veins run cold.

  Wilfred Owen

  Running, Fear, War

  Wilfred Owen, Douglas Kerr (1994). “The Poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.18, Wordsworth Editions

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• Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves

  Horace Bushnell

  Moving, Blood, Soul

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• Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?

  Stevie Wonder

  Unanswered Questions, Sticks, Needles

  Song: Jesus Children Of America, Album: Innervisions, 1973

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• Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins.

  John Welwood

  Wind, Singing, Enlightenment

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• The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mother, Running, Night

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.38, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

  Langston Hughes

  Rivers, Soul, Environmental

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.36, University of Missouri Press

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• We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Government, Syphilis, Spirit

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• All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

  Rebecca West

  Sleep, Men, Should Have

  Rebecca West (2010). “The New Meaning of Treason”, p.182, Open Road Media

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• For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.

  Patrick Ness

  Blood, Important, Stories

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Real, Blood, Knowing

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.50, Princeton University Press

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• My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

  John Cheever

  Cancer, Mean, Cat

  1982 On his cancer treatment. Letter to Philip Roth, 10 May.

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• The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Running, Nature, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.38, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

  Langston Hughes

  Science, Blood, Rivers

  "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" l. 1 (1921)

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• With his long sharp nails he opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight and with the other ceased my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound so that I must either suffocate or swallow... Some of the...Oh my god…my god What have I done?

  Bram Stoker

  Blood, Hands, Long

  Bram Stoker (1993). “Dracula”, p.240, Wordsworth Editions

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• I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepperd. I am lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sleep

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.1, Bantam

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• If we’re going to strive for spiritual growth, we have to be willing to put concepts into practice in our everyday lives, in all relationships with all people. You can’t separate your “spiritual life” from your “work life.” They’re both your life! In the same vein, you can’t separate money and happiness.

  T. Harv Eker

  Spiritual, Practice, People

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• My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can't scream and I can't breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber, every bone and every nerve, all awake and buzzing in my body as if charged with electricity. I am pure adrenaline.

  Veronica Roth

  Hurt, Heart, Nerves

  "Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth, April 25, 2011.

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• For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins.

  Edith Wharton

  Strong, Blood, Years

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2054, Delphi Classics

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• We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein; but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Judging, Ears, May

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• It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.

  Paul Gallico

  Believe, Character, Writing

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• Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense of defeat. Suddenly it comes to me, toes tempted to test the ledge, that there is a way out of this. Clam surety flows through my veins, and as I turn to wave good-bye, I wonder if it will hurt or if a single person will cry at my funeral. I take a deep breath, a final taste of sweet mountain air. I conjure Leona, Emily. Move my feet closer. Closer There's Grandma One, Grandma Two, and their spouses, waiting for me. I see Dad. Cara. Mommy. I screw up my courage, step over

  Ellen Hopkins

  Sweet, Hurt, Dad

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