Flesh Quotes

It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race.

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.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

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 when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.

Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.

Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.