Flesh Quotes

And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh.
Michael Servetus

God, Spirit, Account

Do not be surprised if I adore as God what you called humanity, since you talked of humanity as if it was empty of spirit and you think in the flesh according to the flesh.
Michael Servetus

God, Humanity, Since

I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.
Janet Suzman

Life, Character, Real

Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.
James Belushi

Family, Car, Someone

Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now well.
Junipero Serra

Power, Father, Sick

In considering found that the papists did not deny him to be come in the flesh, nor we did not deny him - who then was antichrist? Was the Turk antichrist only?
Anne Hutchinson

Him, Found, Nor

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
Ziyi Zhang

Women, American, Show

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.
Colleen McCullough

Down, Two, Between

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.
Amy Levy

May, Made, Blood

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.
Lewis Tappan

Good, Men, Whole

As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.
Melissa Auf der Maur

Dreams, Truth, Reality

This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.
Melissa Auf der Maur

Earth, Act, Blood

I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.
Naima Adedapo

Amazing, Body, Spirit

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Single, Him, Two

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.
Joshua Slocum

Actually, Ways, Boston

It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.
Michael O'Donoghue

Real, Easy, Move

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.
Christopher Plummer

Time, Father, Sweet

In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a drummer, and somebody who plays keyboard and guitar. We try to play all of our parts and flesh it out to get a lush sound, while also keeping the energy of a three-piece punk act. We want to be the best of all possible worlds.
Andrew Dost

Best, Play, Try

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
Marc Bloch

Good, Human, Lies

The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.'
Philip Schaff

Human, Person, Same

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.
Rosa Luxemburg

Democracy, Small, Working

There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.
Robert Hass

Good, Saying, Words

And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.
Margaret Drabble

Society, Nice, End

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.
Stephane Mallarme

Sad, Read, Books

You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome stone facade and stately columns. The new L.A. County jail - called The Twin Towers - isn't beautiful at all; it's a stucco panopticon the color of sick flesh.
Leslie Jamison

Beautiful, Sick, Old

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

Mind, Rather, Making

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

Write, Serve, Images

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
Fawn M. Brodie

Life, Character, Show

I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh re spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh.
Catherine Crowe

Time, Great, Cannot

A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.
Thomas Gold Appleton

Made, Wind, East

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