Quotes with life-blood

Quotes 2981 till 3000 of 4378.

• The Bible has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.

  Tom Naylor
   
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• The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
  

  Oprah Winfrey
  American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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• The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

  Malcolm Forbes
  American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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• The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.

  How Life Imitates Chess (2007) 96

  Garry Kasparov
  Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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• The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.

  Bobby Orr
  Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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• The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

  Carol Gilligan
  American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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• The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

  Sylvia Plath
  American poet (1932 - 1963)
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• The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

  Tertullian
  Roman Christian author from Carthage (160 - 230)
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• The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

  B. B. King
  American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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• The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

  Richard Bach
  American author (1936 - )
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• The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

  Philip Roth
  American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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• The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

  Norman Douglas
  British Author (1868 - 1952)
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• The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

  Archibald Macleish
  American poet (1892 - 1982)
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• The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.

  Barbara Demick
  American journalist
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• The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

  Hermann Hesse
  German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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• The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

  Norman Cousins
  American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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• The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the only legitimate object of good government.

  Letter to Republicans, 31-03-1809

  Thomas Jefferson
  American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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• The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.

  Carl Van Vechten
  American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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• The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.

  Albert Claude
  Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• blood-drenched
• transformation
• manipulation
• fundamentals
• intelligence
• possibility

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