Bloody Quotes - Page 22

• Those magicians who object to the use of blood, have endeavored to replace it with incense. But, the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious. And for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is the best.

  Aleister Crowley

  Sacrifice, Blood, Purpose

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislator’s house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?

  Erick Erickson

  People, House, March

  "At What Point Do People Revolt?" by Erick Erickson, www.redstate.com. March 31, 2009.

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• I realized fear one morning, with the blare of the fox hunter's sound. When they're all chasin' the poor bloody fox, 'tis safer to be dressed like the hound.

  Jack Higgins

  Morning, Sound, Hunters

  FaceBook post by Jack Higgins from Aug 07, 2015

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• I want to be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand. I wanna get more sand into an animal than anybody has ever bloody got in one. I wanna fill a rat with the entire Gobi Desert, so it’s really quite tight.

  Eddie Izzard

  Animal, Desert, Want

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• It was no picnic despite what anyone might say later . . . . Most of us were pretty scared all the bloody time; you only felt happy when the battle was over and you were on your way home, then you were safe for a bit, anyway.

  Colin S. Gray

  Home, Battle, Safe

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• That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

  Iris Murdoch

  Wish, Awful, Breathe

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.151, Penguin

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• All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.

  Joni Mitchell

  War, Home, News

  Joni Mitchell (2009). “Joni Mitchell: Hits: Piano/Vocal/Chords”, p.3, Alfred Music

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• In Christ we see the strength of achievement, and the strength of endurance. He moved with a calm majesty, like the sun. The bloody sweat, and the crown of thorns, and the cross, were full in His eyes; but He was obedient unto death. In His perfect self-sacrifice we see the perfection of strength; in the love that prompted it we see the perfection of beauty. This combination of self-sacrifice and love must be commenced in every Christian; and when it shall be in its spirit complete in him, then will he also be perfect in strength and beauty.

  Mark Hopkins

  Christian, Eye, Sacrifice

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.61, 1895.

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• Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

  Clement Attlee

  Genius, Fifty, Fool

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• Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Mother, Brother

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• There was a stately drama writ
  By the hand that peopled the earth and air,
  And set the stars in the infinite,
  And made night gorgeous and morning fair;
  And all that had sense to reason knew
  That bloody drama must be gone through.
  Some sat and watched how the action veered--
  Waited, profited, trembled, cheered--
  We saw not clearly nor understood,
  But yielding ourselves to the masterhand,
  Each in his part as best he could,
  We played it through as the author planned.

  Alan Seeger

  Morning, Stars, Drama

  Alan Seeger, “The Hosts”

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• If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Destiny, Farce

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.33

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• Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, "How did you do this? How can we catch you?"

  Bex Taylor-Klaus

  Thinking, Brain, Crime

  Source: collider.com

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• Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death, and religiosu wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man?

  Thomas Paine

  War, Men, Blood

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.151

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• It's the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Sports, Football, Writing

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• It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano on the stage in the first place, otherwise the pianist would be standing there with no bloody piano to play.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Play, Piano

  "'If I Fell in a Barrel of Boobs, I'd Come Out Sucking My Thumb!' - the Wisdom of Ian Holloway". www.standard.co.uk. May 24, 2010.

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• My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

  Saffron Aldridge

  Mother, Morning, Life Is Too Short

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• I led by three or four feet, with Biggy (John Biglow) surging closer on each stroke. I hated him in those last few seconds; he was the only reason my guts were being strewn over the water like an oil slick ... I pressed one last time, and looked at the finish-line flagman. In that instant the flag jumped down and then up. The up stroke, identifying the second place finisher, was for me. John Biglow was the victor. I stared into the green-brown water watching my bloody soul drop through the depths, slowly rocking back and forth, occasionally glinting in the light, and then finally disappearing.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Oil, Feet, Light

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• Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so tangled up that you can't tell which is which until you've shot 'em both, and then it's too late.

  M. L. Stedman

  Snakes, Tangled, Too Late

  M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Years, Lasts, Next

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• Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.

  Seth Godin

  Succeed, Fit, Being The Best

  Interview with Bryan Hutchinson, positivewriter.com.

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• We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod,
  But we thrill to the new revelation that we are parts of God.

  Robert Haven Schauffler

  God, Past, Thrill

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• Set we forward; let
  A Roman and a British ensign wave
  Friendly together. So through Lud's town march,
  And in the temple of the great Jupiter
  Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts.
  Set on there! Never was a war did cease,
  Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Book, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.3068, Oxford University Press

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• The disadvantage of working over networks is that you can't so easily go into someone else's office and rip their bloody heart out.

  Jim McDonald

  Rip, Heart, Office

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• It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving.

  Richard Branson

  Divorce, Hard Work, People

  "Richard Branson on Being Richard Branson". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.entrepreneur.com. December 17, 2012.

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