Quotes with veins

  • All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
  • Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.

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  • Rebecca West All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Horace Bushnell Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
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  • Emily Brontë How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Lord George Byron I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine - and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so -and now the dross is coming.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bertolt Brecht I see with sympathy
    The swollen veins on his brow, showing
    How exhausting it is to be evil.
    The Mask of Evil
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Jean Baptiste Racine It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
    Jean Baptiste Racine
    French playwright (1639 - 1699)
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  • Ada Cambridge Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
    Ada Cambridge
    English-born Australian writer (1844 - 1926)
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  • Carlo Ratti Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • John Cheever My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Caleb Cushing The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Tupac Shakur We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.
    Tupac Shakur
    American rapper and actor (1971 - 1996)
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  • Charles Baudelaire We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Thomas Traherne You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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