Quotes About Blood

I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.

No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual.

It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.

Bumblestripe: "I think we showed them."Hazeltail: "Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?

The wheels of history are lubricated with human blood.

Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

The unchangeable price of everything more precious and valuable is blood.

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.

wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers.

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

Our present predicament comes from the fact that running the economy on blood is no longer fashionable. We can't end this depression with another war.

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

I knew a time when Europe feasted well: bodies were munched in thousands, vintage blood so blithely flowed that even the dull mud grew greedy, and ate men; ... Long revel, but at last to loathing turned, and through after-dinner speeches yawned those who still waked to hear them. No one claps. Come, Time, 'tis time to bear away the scraps! - Opus 7

Fight it must, but let that fight be not a civil war against its own blood kindred but against the dangerous foreign races, whether they advance sword in hand or in the more insidious guise of beggars at our gates, pleading for admittance to share our prosperity. If we continue to allow them to enter they will in time drive us out of our own land by mere force of breeding. The

There was no doubt that her brother was her mother's child, but time and again Hayako had the impression that she too shared her mother's blood. Not the thick, rich blood that flows peacefully through the veins, but the blood they sucked and licked from the scratches inflicted on each other when they fought tooth and nail — so passionate was their attachment.

Death, you are no different to me than my lover with cloud-coloured skin, and your hair a mass of dark cloud, your hands like blood-red lotus, and your lips the colour of blood.

And when the moment came, even then Genji would be fortunate. He would die without fear, drenched in his own heart's blood, in the embrace of a beautiful woman, and she would weep for him. What samurai could hope for more?

Those tests showed that Sadako's white blood count was 33,000. A normal person's white blood count is between 5,000 and 8,000. Her red blood count was 3,560,000. A normal person's would be between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000.

Father, would you make us more grateful for what you've given us in this country, and for the sacrifices of those who've spilled their blood. Would you make our government strong and keep us rooted in the faith of our forefathers. Help us to see our lives through eternal eyes and to realize that this life--though priceless--is but a vapor. And finally we ask...make us more like Christ, Father. No matter the cost.