The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my head and the aural glitter of all those little eardrum hairs quivering like a drunk in withdrawal.
I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but I won't be a slave or puppet for him.
All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.
I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.
Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.
Blood doesn't satisfy cravings. It magnifies them.
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.
Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.
No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have a constitutional check upon the administration, which may thereby by brought into order without violence. But when such a power is not lodged in the people, oppression proceeds uncontrolled in its career, till the governed, transported into rage, seek redress in the midst of blood and confusion.
Passion such as hers is all consent, asking little in return. I had merely to enter a room where she was to see her face take on that peaceful expression of one who is resting in bed. If I touched her, I had the impression that all the blood in her veins was turning to honey.
I made lasagna for dinner," Tamsyn called out. "That work for you?" He continued to look at her, as if he'd drink her up with his eyes. "Anything is fine. " "Maybe I shouldn't waste my lasagna on you, then. " Tamsyn grabbed a container from the cooling unit. "How about some cardboard instead?" Brenna found herself amused in spite of the blood that continued to scent the air and the taut expectation that stretched between her and Judd. Lips twitching, she waited for his response. "Cardboard has no nutritional value. " Utterly toneless. "Lasagna would be a better choice.
For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.
I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.
When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist. ' I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything.
There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
My political ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian
I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.
Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.