(121 quotes found)
“The flesh is strong, my spirit's stronger.”
Indigo Girls
“How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.”
Claude Debussy
“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
Walt Whitman
“Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.”
Paul Valery
“The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.”
Jerry Hall
“Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy”
Charles Fillmore
“The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.”
Adam Smith
“For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: / Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; / Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.”
Bible
“So your flesh shall be part of mineAnd part of mine be yours.Brother and sister we shall beWhose unity endures.Always the sister doll will cry,Made in these careful ways,Cry on and on, Come back to me,Come back, in a few days.”
William Empson
“I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.”
John Gregory Dunne
