Flesh Quotes

Even if plants were sentient, veganism would still be a moral imperative given that it takes many pounds of plants to produce one pound of flesh.

I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.

All flesh is not venison.

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.

The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my hand moved on. Delightful endless futility.

Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.It was in the blood, the flesh,And now it is forever.

O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!

But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.

Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line.

She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

One's appreciation of nature is never more acute than when a bit of nature is injected into one's flesh.

Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.

At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

Like a tongue on frozen steel, like flesh in flame —

With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean actually it's PAY NOW, FLY LATER

It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. "Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!"

His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin, your flesh, your bones.

Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself.

Art is science made flesh.

My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.

Flesh forgets. Bone remembers.

I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.

The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference.

I've been around the world and I've had bras made in different places, and each time I'm experiencing the same troubles: the painful shoulders, the underwire cutting into my flesh.

Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.

The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.

Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.

There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be envious on God's blessings on their children.

Alice Stewart [is] a much underestimated scientist who has been an indomitable challenger of the establishment and a thorn in the flesh of the nuclear industry.

We need to put no confidence in the arm of flesh, but rather trust ourselves entirely to the arm of the Lord.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind

For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.

At the same time I really enjoy painting flesh.

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

Don King is a hip exploiter, an intelligent flesh peddler

The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.

The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.

Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.

This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid.

But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

There will be hoards of vampire bats descending on Beverly Hills.... We'll see if they can find any real flesh to puncture. I don't know.

Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.

A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh.