Bloody Quotes - Page 24

• I think that boxing is actually not as dangerous as the politics. In boxing, you're gonna get a bloody nose or a black eye. In politics you can obviously get either dioxin in the food or bullet in the head.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, Eye, Thinking

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• I gained everything. Or at least I'll think so," he growled, suddenly impatient, anxious, "when you give me a bloody answer to my bloody question. How many times are you going to make me ask you? Will you marry me, Gabrielle O'Callaghan? Yes or yes? And in case you're still managing to miss the point, the correct answer is 'yes.' And, by the way, anytime you'd like to tell me you love me, I wouldn't mind hearing it.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Thinking, Giving, Missing

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• Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929

  John Vaillant

  Beautiful, Son, Cutting

  John Vaillant (2015). “The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed”, p.25, Random House

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• People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Mistake, Failure, People

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• The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Law, Speak, Guilty

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.209, DOSER Reads

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• Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.

  Clement Attlee

  Children, Political, Genius

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• It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp washcloth to magically reveal, just above my naval: queasy. Applying alcohol with dabs of a cottonball, wispy shreds sticking to the bloody lines of: perky. I had a dirty streak my senior year, which I later rectified.

  Gillian Flynn

  Summer, Senior, Dirty

  Gillian Flynn (2006). “Sharp Objects: A Novel”, p.62, Broadway Books

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• I know who I am. Bloody hell, I'm getting enough bills for Karl Pilkington so I hope I am him, 'cos if I'm not, I have no idea who I'm paying for

  Karl Pilkington

  Stupid, Who I Am, Ideas

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.71, Canongate Books

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• We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.

  Don Henley

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

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• With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.

  Francis Quarles

  Revenge, Vow, Flux

  Francis Quarles (1861). “Quarles' emblems, illustr. by C. Bennett and W.H. Rogers”, p.35

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• There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.

  Rebecca West

  Two, Kind, Imperialism

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Heart, Hands, Hard

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.300

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• Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Restoration, Might, Revolution

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• I'd sort of dabbled in Black Magic, not practicing it, but I was interested in it. All these horrible things kept happening to me - a lot of my aunts and uncles started dying and I was seeing all these bloody things visiting me during the night.

  Geezer Butler

  Uncles, Aunt, Night

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• This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: - To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.

  Vachel Lindsay

  Men, House, Ghost

  Vachel Lindsay (1963). “Selected poems”

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• If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

  Rebecca West

  Revolution, Wealth, Rich

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.263, Open Road Media

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• I am the trustee for the best bloody fans on the face of the earth.

  Jack Kent Cooke

  Fans, Earth, Faces

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• I feel it's important to point out that I've earned my humility by being a jackass - like, I trip and fall on my face and say, "Oh, right. Don't think you're a big shot, because you've got a bloody nose now." So it's hard to say.

  Nick Offerman

  Fall, Humility, Thinking

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.

  T. S. Eliot

  Friday, Jesus, Thinking

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 4 (1940)

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• Out of the night that covers me,
  Black is the pit from pole to pole,
  I thank whatever gods may be
  For my unconquerable soul.
  In the fell clutch of circumstance
  I have not winced nor cried aloud.
  Under the bludgeonings of chance
  My head is bloody, but unbowed.
  Beyond this place of wrath and tears
  Looms but the Horror of the shade,
  And yet the menace of the years
  Finds and shall find me unafraid.
  It matters not how strait the gate,
  How charged with punishments the scroll,
  I am the master of my fate:
  I am the captain of my soul.

  William Ernest Henley

  Strength, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

  "Invictus" l. 13 (1888)

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• Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible.

  Philip Jenkins

  Islamic, Scripture, Quran

  "Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran?". "All Things Considered" with Barbara Bradley Hagerty, www.npr.org. March 18, 2010.

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• Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than men in steel with bloody purposes. Death is not dreadful; 'tis the dread of death— We die whene'er we think of it!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Thinking, Sorrow

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• BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Two, Alcohol, Four

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.29, University of Georgia Press

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• O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Gun, Soldier

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.502, Courier Corporation

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• Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.

  Willa Cather

  Men, Exaggeration Is, Foolish Man

  Willa Cather (1970). “Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912”, p.496, U of Nebraska Press

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