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«Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves»
Author: Horace Bushnell | About: Habit, Soul | Keywords: arteries, artery, courses, moves, vein, veins
«Her blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestat's words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard her heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be.»
«Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.»
«My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.»
«All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.»
Author: Rebecca West (Writer) | Keywords: like so, pear, pears, treason, veins
«She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.»
Author: Virgil (Author, Poet) | Keywords: consumed, nourishes, poison, vein, veins
«I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money.»
Author: William S. Burroughs | Keywords: vein, veins
«I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood»
«He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer.»
«If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.»