Giving Blood Quotes

• Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.

  Anneli Rufus

  Tired, Mean, Thinking

  "The joys of solitude" by Phil Daoust, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2010.

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• You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

  Marlon Brando

  Blood, Want Something, Giving

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• Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

  Charles Dickens

  Family, Blood, Giving

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• Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

  Joe Biden

  Home, Opportunity, Blood

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• I say we spend some money, clean up some junkies and make them all go work for the Red Cross. You ever give blood to the Red Cross? Little paper hatted trainee kid, just sticking you full of holes. Golly, jeez, this is way harder than the deep fryer, how does this work? You get an ex-junkie in there, bap-bap, he's gonna find a vein. You're in, you're out, you got sugar cookie and you're happy!

  Christopher Titus

  Kids, Blood, Giving

  "Christopher Titus: Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding". Comedy, One-man Show, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

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• If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.

  Andy Weir

  Blood, Earthquakes, Cities

  "Fictional character: Mark Watney". "The Martian", www.imdb.com. 2015.

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• When the cow gives blood
  and the Christ is born
  we must all eat sacrifices.
  We must all eat beautiful women.

  Anne Sexton

  Beautiful, Christmas, God

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough.

  Pete Townshend

  Blood, Giving, May

  Song: Give Blood, Album: White City: A Novel

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• I took the wife's family out for tea biscuits. They weren't too happy about having to give blood though.

  Les Dawson

  Blood, Giving, Wife

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• It is better to give blood but receive cash than the other way around.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Blood, Giving, Cash

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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