Flesh Quotes - Page 34

• Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.

  John Vianney

  Jesus, Blood, Adorable

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• In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Stars, Hero, Epic

  "What If Apollo 11 Failed? President Nixon Had Speech Ready" by Nola Taylor Redd, www.space.com. July 22, 2014.

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• They [rulers] must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in proceeds without mercy to cut, saw, and burn flesh, veins, bone, and marrow. Such a procedure must also be followed in this instance. Burn down their synagogues, forbid all that I enumerated earlier, force them to work, and deal harshly with them, as Moses did... If this does not help we must drive them out like mad dogs.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Cutting, Mad

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• Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul of Antichrist is the pope, his flesh or body the Turk.

  Martin Luther

  Soul, Together, Body

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• The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government.

  William S. Burroughs

  Beautiful, Weed, Fall

  Sinclair Simon Maurice Beiles, William S. Burroughs (1960). “Minutes to Go”

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• Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.

  William S. Burroughs

  Special, Nagging, Aging

  William S. Burroughs (2012). “Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk"”, p.150, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay

  William S. Burroughs

  Sacrifice, Color, Tree

  William S. Burroughs (1979). “Ah Pook is here, and other texts”, Calder Publications Limited

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• Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.

  Nathaniel Altman

  War, Fighting, Animal

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• The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.

  Lennox Lewis

  Pieces, Facts, Significant

  "The wrap: Dismay at State of the Union address" by Ros Taylor, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2002.

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• It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past...

  Douglas MacArthur

  Spiritual, Art, Character

  "Life's A Dive". Documentary, Short, Adventure, www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• Either the material order is the whole of being, wherein all transcendence is an illusion, or it is the phenomenal surface - mysterious, beautiful, terrible, harsh, and haunting - of a world of living spirits.... One should... be able to recognize that it is only the latter view that has ever had the power - over centuries and in every realm of human accomplishment - to summon desire beyond the boring limits marked by mortality, to endow the will with constancy and purpose, and to shape imagination towards ends that should not be possible within the narrow economies of the flesh.

  David Bentley Hart

  Beautiful, Views, Order

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• God's best is for the believer to take His Word that says he is healed, put that Word in his heart, confess it with his lips, and allow it to be medicine to his flesh.

  Jerry Savelle

  Heart, Medicine, Lips

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• The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods...Beware of changing this natural taste and making children flesh-eaters, if not for their health's sake, for the sake of their character; for how can one explain away the fact that great meat-eaters are usually fiercer and more cruel than other men; this has been recognised at all times and in all places.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Character, Men

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• I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

  Paulo Coelho

  Three, Brazil, Deprivation

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• Cordial love of the neighbor does not consist in feelings. This love flows not from a heart of flesh but from the heart of our will.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Heart, Feelings, Doe

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• Real people are made out of a whole lot of things-flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.

  Thomas C Foster

  Real, Blood, People

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• I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.

  Spencer Tunick

  Art, Trying, Groups

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• Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human.

  Adam Nevill

  Hell, Membranes, Humans

  Adam Nevill (2013). “A Horror Omnibus: Apartment 16, The Ritual, Last Days”, p.149, Pan Macmillan

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• I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light. In helping others to succeed I shall find my own prosperity. In the welfare of others I shall find my own well-being. I am infinite. I am spaceless, I am tireless; I am beyond body thought, and utterance; beyond all matter and mind. I am endless bliss.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Helping Others, Light, Mind

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• Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Winter, Knitting, Wish

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”

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• People used to say to my friend Mary, a quadriplegic, 'You still have your mind.' She would say, 'I still have my body.' The world tells me to divorce myself from my flesh, to live in my head. ... I didn't want to be fleshless.

  Anne Finger

  Divorce, People, Mind

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• So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Soul, Remember, Bones

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• Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.

  John Muir

  People, Missing, Drunkards

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.24, Great West Books

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• Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.

  Edward Abbey

  Integrity, Vegetables, Cover Ups

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• If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus famliarised to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to the aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Blood, Inmates

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