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Quotes About Blood

A central credo of Hitler's new SS was the Blood Myth, which evoked the twin visions of racial fastidiousness and combat on a cosmic stage. It
~ Danny S. Parker
Blood was the new holy water, the entire ceremony exuding medieval overtones of sacrifice and racial purity, central to the aims of National Socialism. Perhaps
~ Danny S. Parker
systolic blood pressure is a much better indicator of stress than heart rate.)
~ Dave Grossman
I am sick and tired of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. —William Tecumseh Sherman
~ Dave Grossman
Blood of the Martyrs The quotations on the facing page present two opposing viewpoints, both by Catholics. Only one is right. We learn the truth from John's vision and from history. The woman astride the beast is "drunken with the blood of the
~ Dave Hunt
biological mum
~ David Baddiel
four traditional blood panels—the lipid panel, the basic metabolic panel, the hepatic function panel, and the complete blood count—as well as commonly administered hormone tests for both men and women.
~ James B. LaValle
Blood in the Streets and The Great Reckoning.
~ James Dale Davidson
Filled with mixed rage and fear, the king called for the astrologers and wizards, and took counsel with them what these things might be, and how to overcome them. The wizards worked their spells and incantations, and in the end declared that nothing but the blood of a youth born without mortal father, smeared on the foundations of the castle, could
~ James Knowles
people with adrenal fatigue (hypoadrenia) tend to also have low blood sugar (hypoglycemia).
~ James L. Wilson
Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in shadow, the cones of dead volcanoes stark and biscuit-colored against the sky. I could smell pinion trees, wet sage, woodsmoke, cattle in the pastures, and creek water that had melted from snow. I could smell the way the country probably was when it was only a dream in the mind of God.
~ James Lee Burke
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. —Revelation 16:6
~ James Rollins
The glories of our blood and stateAre shadows, not substantial things;There is no armor against fate;Death lays his icy hand on kings.
~ James Shirley
She was sitting quietly on the bank of a stream with her feet in the water, her robe perfectly white, and no blood anywhere except for her hair. It was dark, and clotted, completely soaked. As if she's tried to dye it red.
~ Donna Tartt
For a moment, as his arm touched mine, he was a creature of flesh and blood, but the next he was a hallucination again, a figment of the imagination stalking down the hallway as heedless of me ass ghosts, in their shadowy rounds, are said to be heedless of the living.
~ Donna Tartt
Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.
~ Donna Tartt
It is not too much to say that when the word blood is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart.
~ Doris Lessing
It is not too much to say that when the word blood is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart.
~ Doris Lessing
When a leader invokes blood to arouse us to support him and his cause, it is time for us to be on our guard, to think of those long millennia when our ancestor's lives were safeguard by blood and sacrifice.
~ Doris Lessing
To reflect that it is nearly always those leaders who claim to be in the forefront of progress, enlightenment, etc. who are the most ready to invoke blood, does offer the pleasures of irony.
~ Doris Lessing
I liked Revelations, loved the Whore of Babylon and the promised rivers of blood and fire. It struck me like gospel music, it promised vindication.
~ Dorothy Allison
Because he knew … God, he knew! Jerott's terrible romanticism, which would taste death so readily; so splendidly offer the blood of his fellows, in defence of the weak and the puny.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
It was only the first stage, that was all. It was only the first knot in the snare, the first flick of the hook; the first hint of the spin in the arrow. The first letting of blood not his own.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers