“Suppose you found your brother in bed with your wife, and put a javelin through both of them. You would be justified, and they would atone for their sins, and be received into the Kingdom of God. I would at once do so, in such a case; and under the circumstances, I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.... There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it.” MenWellsHeartMadeHandsWould BeFoundChristSinPayCasesWifeBloodBrotherCircumstancesBedCleanDebtKingdomsJustifiedKingdom Of GodWipeCovenantYour BrotherClean HandsJavelin Book:Journal of Discourses Source: Journal of Discourses
“Galen , in the third section of his book, "The Use of the Limbs," says correctly that it would be in vain to expect to see living beings formed of the blood of menstruous women and the semen virile, who will not die, will never feel pain, or will move perpetually, or shine like the sun. This dictum of Galen is part of the following more general proposition: Whatever is formed of matter receives the most perfect form possible in that species of matter; in each individual case the defects are in accordance with that individual matter.” FeelsBookMatterUseWould BePainMovingFormDiesIndividualPerfectCasesSunBloodThirdsShiningSpeciesFollowingVainSectionsPropositionsDefectsLimbsGalen Book:The Guide for the Perplexed Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.” WholeStoriesNamesRaceCasesBloodHeroTraditionDirectMereChaptersSyllablesAnathemaOral Tradition Author:P. L. Travers
“In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.” WorldSeemsMightPoliticalPartyCasesRightsBloodShareRevolutionFortuneViolentCuriousEnjoyedAshamedDeniedDelicateTriflesPolitical LifePolitical Rights Author:Alice Meynell
“We have seen that blood united to blood in the case of but remotely connected species of animals, kills; blood united to blood in the case of more closely allied species of animals does not kill. The physical organism of man survives when strange blood comes in contact with strange blood, ... but clairvoyant power perishes under the influence of this mixing of blood, or exogamy.” MenDoeAnimalUnitedCasesBloodInfluenceStrangeSpeciesScaryConnectedContactOrganismsMixingClairvoyant Author:Rudolf Steiner
“Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art.” IfsWayArtCasesWrittenBloodExpressionHarmonyJazzNotesBonesClassicCollectivesPerformersComposerColleaguesNew OrleansImprovisationDissonanceRagtime Author:Russell Lynes
“To each of my Nephews, William Augustine Washington, George Lewis, George Steptoe Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Samuel Washington, I give one of my swords or Cutteaux of which I may be Possesed; and they are to chuse in the order they are named. These Swords are accompanied with an injuction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it be for self defense, or in the defense of their Country and its rights; and in the latter case, to keep them unsheathed, and prefer falling with them in their hands, to the relenquishment thereof.” GivingMayWarSelfCountryHandsPurposeOrderFallCasesRightsBloodDefenseLatterSelf DefenseNephewAugustineShedding Blood Author:George Washington
“Our fellow-citizens think they have a right to full information, in a case of such great concernment to them. It is their sweat which is to earn all the expenses of the war, and their blood which is to flow in expiation of the causes of it.” ThinkingWarCausesCasesBloodInformationCitizensFlowFellowsExpensesSweat Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution
“They say blood is thicker than water. Only in certain cases, you need water to live. You learn that in the basics.” NeedsCertainWaterCasesBloodBasicsBlood Is Thicker Than Water Author:Styles P
“Just because of [Albert Camus] way of sensing before thinking. He's in a field that he often feels like escaping from. In any case, you have to learn what blood is. It all has to be rationalised. In that he feels exiled, solitary.” ThinkingWayFeelsCasesBloodFieldsSolitaryEscapingSensing Author:Catherine Camus
“Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.” IfsMenHeartBodyCoursesRoomsEmotionWonderBreakCasesBloodLogicDisappearMusclesAchePumps Author:Ben Elton