Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

Boxing is just show business with blood.

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.