Sanguine Quotes - Page 2

• As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense.
  [Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum,
  Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]

  Ovid

  God, Offering, Blood

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• You know, I'm normally so sanguine. But... being accused of rushing these two books out to cash in on the Newbery Medal, without access to time travel equipment or anything, just makes me want to bang my forehead gently against a tree for half an hour. Is it too much to ask people to think?

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Thinking, Two

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• The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.

  Agnes Repplier

  Strong, Men, Law

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want.

  Nina Jacobson

  Block, Games, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit. Menof cool reflection are not so sanguine in their praises of it.

  David Hume

  Military, Reflection, Sublime

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.521, Delphi Classics

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• Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Passion, Pride

  "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

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• The Microbe is so very small
  You cannot make him out at all,
  But many sanguine people hope
  To see him through a microscope.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Science, Scientist, Microbes

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• Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

  William E. Gladstone

  Dream, Time Management, Profit

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• To take advantage of the last precious minutes, you've got to stay afield as late as the birds do, regardless of a houseful of guests, the sanguine promises you've made the missus, or the overdraft bank notice at home. To heck with everybody and everything when birds are feeding and fish are biting. Stay late and lie like a dog if necessary.

  Havilah Babcock

  Dog, Lying, Home

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• Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.

  William James

  Skulls, Evil, Healthy

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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• Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; and that waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.

  Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

  Life, Dream, Believe

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• There's a clock on the wall. Press your hand against the face and turn it very slightly to the. Left. There'll be a click to tell you it's done." "Sounds easy enough." "Yes it does," said Sanguine. "Kiss for good luck?" "Maybe later," said Gracious. "How about a handshake?" Asked Donegan.

  Derek Landy

  Wall, Good Luck, Kissing

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• When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Rose, Corn, Ghost

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.150, Library of America

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• I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

  John Major

  War, Thinking, People

  "Former PM John Major: 'British don't turn tail' from terror". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2003.

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