Blood Quotes - page 3

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. (William Tecumseh Sherman)
The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood. View quote
Robert E. Howard
When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind. View quote
John Dryden
For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good. View quote
John Dryden
No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success. View quote
Bear Bryant
Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. View quote
Don Marquis
The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful. View quote
Julius Evola
We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land! (Yasser Arafat)
When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green And every goose a swan, lad And every lass a queen Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day. View quote
Charles Kingsley
Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood. View quote
Augusto Pinochet
Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. View quote
Carl Sagan
Earth helped him with the cry of blood. View quote
William Wordsworth
Dreams, books, are each a world and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. View quote
William Wordsworth
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. View quote
Terry Pratchett
A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear. (Edward Young)
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. View quote
Thomas Sowell
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few -- the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill. View quote
Smedley Butler
The tempest was terrible and separated me from my other vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look forward to but death. Each was certain the others had been destroyed. What man ever born, not excepting Job, who would not have died of despair, when in such weather seeking safety for my son, my brother, shipmates, and myself, we were forbidden access to the land and the harbors which I, by God's will and sweating blood, had won for Spain. View quote
Christopher Columbus
Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king. View quote
Walter Scott