Flesh Quotes

1391 Flesh quotes by 935 unique authors

I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key.… — David Cronenberg
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones,… — Ignatius Loyola
You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh. — Pat Benatar
The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is… — Humphry Davy
Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of… — James Belushi
The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care… — Simon Callow
I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or… — Arthur Darvill
If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that… — Ted Dekker
I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine… — Lady Jane Grey
Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy. — Bruce Springsteen
The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God. — John Mellencamp
A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found. — Joni Mitchell
Flesh is weak, but love is strong. — Alan Jackson
As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual… — Rene Dubos
He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility. — Elizabeth Gaskell
You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome stone facade and stately columns. The new L.A. County jail… — Leslie Jamison
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well. — Ma Jian
The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental, moral, and social… — Richard Shusterman
How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder.… — Aberjhani
One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone. — Waylon Jennings
I ain't no veggie, like my flesh to the bone, alive and licking on your ice cream cone. — Alice Cooper
We want flesh, flesh for fantasy. — Billy Idol
Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male. — Bob Dylan
Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh. — Zhang Ziyi
Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along. — Erica Jong

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