Blood Quotes - Page 7

• I smell blood. I'm like a pit bull. Once I taste blood I'm on you .. and I'm about to taste blood.

  Torii Hunter

  Smell, Pits, Bulls

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• All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

  Alfred Douglas

  Sweat, Tears, Links

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• I went to school for about 2 years on a technical course, and I learned a lot. I learned about air mixture ratios and all the stuff; I learned how to draw blood.

  Tom Araya

  School, Air, Years

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• I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

  Henry Ossawa Tanner

  Believe, Sorrow, Advantage

  Henry Ossawa Tanner, Anna O. Marley (2012). “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit”, p.139, Univ of California Press

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• A single kind of red cell is supposed to have an enormous number of different substances on it, and in the same way there are substances in the serum to react with many different animal cells. In addition, the substances which match each kind of cell are different in each kind of serum. The number of hypothetical different substances postulated makes this conception so uneconomical that the question must be asked whether it is the only one possible. ... We ourselves hold that another, simpler, explanation is possible.

  Karl Landsteiner

  Animal, Numbers, Cells

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• The responsibility for maintaining the composition of the blood in respect to other constituents devolves largely upon the kidneys. It is no exaggeration to say that the composition of the blood is determined not by what the mouth ingests but by what the kidneys keep; they are the master chemists of our internal environment, which, so to speak, they synthesize in reverse.

  Homer Smith

  Responsibility, Mouths, Kidneys

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• Intravenous injections of extract from dog's pancreas, removed from seven to ten weeks after ligation of the ducts, invariably exercises a reducing influence upon the percentage sugar of the blood and the amount of sugar excreted in the urine ... the extent and duration of the reduction varies directly with the amount of extract injected.

  Frederick Banting

  Dog, Exercise, Sugar

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• I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!

  Will Rogers

  Honesty, Native American, White

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• The time has been in Israel under the law of God, the celestial law, or that which pertains to the celestial law, for it is one of the laws of that kingdom where our Father dwells, that if a man was found guilty of adultery, he must have his blood shed, and that is near at hand. But now I say, in the name of the Lord, that if this people will sin no more, but faithfully live their religion, their sins will be forgiven them without taking life

  Brigham Young

  Father, Men, Hands

  Brigham Young (1992). “The Essential Brigham Young”

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• Will you love your brothers or sisters likewise, when they have committed a sin that cannot be atoned for without the shedding of their blood? Will you love that man or woman well enough to shed their blood?

  Brigham Young

  Brother, Love You, Men

  Brigham Young (1992). “The Essential Brigham Young”

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• Change the molecules, juices in the blood, so they do things differently.

  Harold Clurman

  Molecules, Juice

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• Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.

  James Russell Lowell

  Oats, Spurs, Pace

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• Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

  Red Smith

  Art, Writing, Typewriters

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• Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

  Will Cuppy

  Silly, Thinking, Brain

  Will Cuppy (2008). “The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody”, p.32, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is continued only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Loss, Men

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• Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.

  Diana Peterfreund

  Disappointment, Dating, Lingering

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• You say I have the most wicked face of any woman. You say my hair is like the serpent locks of Medusa, that my eyes have the cruel cunning of Borgia, that my mouth is the mouth of the sinister scheming Delilah, that my hands are like the talons of a Circe or the blood-bathing Elizabeth Bathory. And then you ask me of my soul—you wish to know if it is reflected in my face.

  Theda Bara

  Eye, Hair, Hands

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• We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.

  Winston Churchill

  Rivers, Years, Europe

  "Ambition for Europe" broadcast, February 14, 1948.

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• To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

  George Santayana

  History, Arrogant, Delight

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.51, MIT Press

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• The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

  Clara Barton

  Father, Patriotism, Veins

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• I have recently observed and stated that the serum of normal people is capable of clumping the red cells of other healthy individuals... As commonly expressed, it can be said that in these cases at least two different kinds of agglutinins exist, one kind in A, the other in B, both together in C. The cells are naturally insensitive to the agglutinins in their own serum.

  Karl Landsteiner

  Two, Cells, People

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• Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.

  Virginia Woolf

  Bricks, Goddess, Conversation

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.918, Delphi Classics

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• Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Fate, Destiny, Water

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• The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

  Lee Strasberg

  Art, Theatre, Trying

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• The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.

  James Wolfe

  Friends, Country, Believe

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