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bloodied
«I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...»
Author: Annie Dillard
(Author)
| Keywords:
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«Jesus did. I was hopping along, when suddenly he comes and cures me. One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next moment me livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by your leave. Look. I'm not saying that being a leper was a bowl of cherries. But it was a living. I mean, you try waving muscular suntanned limbs in people's faces demanding compassion. It's a bloody disaster.»
«The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| About:
Universe
| Keywords:
balance, bloodied, bloodiest, bloody, charm, depended, forces, identified, identifies, identifying, operation, persuasion, persuasions, uncertainty
«Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
absurd, bloodied, bloodiest, bloody, Christianity, infect, infected, infecting, infects, Religions of the world, ridiculous
«A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.»
«If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
bills, bloodied, bloodiest, bloody, commit, definition, enable, innocent, peaceable, revolution, shed, tax, The State, this year, violent
«If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce»
«Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
being bold, bloodied, bloodiest, bloody, bold, bolder, boldest, resolute, scorn, scorning