Best Bloody Wisdom
492 Bloody quotes by 411 unique authors
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Freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of identity. This is my Holy Trinity, each one an intrinsic aspect of my god: Freedom, the Holiest…
— Pat Condell
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When things seem to be slowing down, there's this little trick I like to play. I'd plow this virgin who's on her period, and after…
— Zach Braff
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George Jessel’s newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town’s paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka.
— Lucius Beebe
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The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!
— Faiz Ahmad Faiz
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The American dream? We don't have a dream in Britain because we're bloody awake!
— Al Murray
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Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine . . .…
— Umberto Eco
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Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.
— Michael O'Leary
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Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.
— Khalil Gibran
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A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and…
— Robert Harris
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I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or…
— Bode Miller
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Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.
— Athol Fugard
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Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It…
— Mal Peet
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Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices.…
— Andrei Sakharov
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I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and…
— William Kempe
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The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time on a slab…
— Terry Pratchett
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Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.
— Winston Churchill
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Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the…
— Ezra Pound
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I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can
— Sylvia Plath
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You men of the einsatzgruppen are called upon to fulfill a repulsive duty. But you are soldiers who have to carry out every order unconditionally.…
— Heinrich Himmler
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Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody…
— Frank Herbert
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They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter.
— Unknown Author
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Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death.
— William Shakespeare
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The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan)
— Kerry Packer
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