Flesh Quotes

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

Person, Object, Aura

I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.
Antonio Banderas

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.
Antonio Banderas

Strong, Needs, Cruel

Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.
Ellie Goulding

Human, Two, Talk

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.
Benjamin Carson

Faith, Mind, Why

Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.
George Whitefield

Far, Lord, Expect

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
Vladimir Nabokov

Love, Work, Happy

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes

Future, Alone, Mind

What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.
Dominic Monaghan

Human, Alive, Stay

God himself took this human flesh upon him.
William Barclay

God, Human, Him

I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.
Jane Fonda

Best, Off, Show

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

Show, Higher, Ladder

Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.
Helen Mirren

Pictures, Bodies, Churches

Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.
Geoffrey Beene

Fashion, State, Terrible

And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood.
William Tyndale

Good, God, Heart

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
John Chrysostom

Nature, Men, Human

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
Ben Kingsley

Exists, Longing, Hunger

I've never really been one of those girls who's scared of showing a bit of flesh.
Anna Paquin

Scared, Bit, Showing

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.
Andy Goldsworthy

Violence, Rather, Happens

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
Allen Ginsberg

Art, Small, Living

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.
Lee Strasberg

Try, Blood, Actor

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

Work, Person, Far

I want paint to work as flesh.
Lucian Freud

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
Ida B. Wells

Off, Body, Among

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
Dorothy Day

Faith, God, Death

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

Feeling, Before, Reaching

That Monaco crash was quite a big one - I pulled 33g when I hit the wall, which is a lot. It's a weird sensation - like all my skin and flesh was being pulled off my bones.
Jenson Button

Big, Off, Weird

But I found out that bones with flesh are more interesting than bones without.
James MacArthur

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.
Tim LaHaye

God, Human, Jesus

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
Robert Herrick

Home, Soul, Poor

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