It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.
David Hume

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
Honore De Balzac

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'
Orlando Bloom

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Thomas Sowell

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
Ted Turner

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
Sylvia Plath

I think I'll take a bath in his blood.
Mike Tyson

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
Earl Wilson

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
John D. Rockefeller

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

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.
Sarah Palin

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.
Truman Capote