“ Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. ”
- Edward Kennedy- Copy
“ The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
“ Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves. ”
- Horace Bushnell- Copy
“ Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that. ”
- Joseph Rickaby- Copy
“ All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
“ Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
“ As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject. ”
- Elija Lovejoy- Copy
“ It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. ”
- Jean Racine- Copy
“ My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats. ”
- John Cheever- Copy
“ We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
“ You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars. ”
- Thomas Traherne- Copy
“ The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
“ I'm limited, so, I kind of know where I fit as an actress. I kind of get it now, finally, after all of these years of trying to be a dramatic actress. I kind of think that'd I'd like to continue dealing with these things in a funny, lighter vein, but also truthful and honest. ”
- Diane Keaton- Copy
“ Most of these are love songs where I'm trying to come to grips with relationships. They're frequently told from the point of view of ex-lovers, so at first it may seem like I'm being arrogant, but actually I'm eating humble pie. I'm cutting open a vein and letting it bleed for you. ”
- Brian Molko- Copy
“ I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My aim is to move from one vein to the other without any trouble. The biggest thing to me is keeping a feeling, regardless what you play. So many cats lose their feeling at various times, not through the whole tune, but at various times, and it causes them to have to build up and drop down, and you can feel it. ”
- Wes Montgomery- Copy
“ Certainly in days past no one ever sat down to design a plaid for the MacLumphas and wove into the texture blue for the varicose veins, red for the bloodshot eyes and purple for the claret nose of the clan chief. ”
- Micheil Macdonald- Copy
“ In the jungle of the marketplace, the intelligent buyer must be alert to every commercial sound, to every snapping of a selling twig, to every rustle that may signal the uprising arm holding the knife pointed toward the jugular vein. ”
- Dexter Masters- Copy
“ It is not to the softer and more perishable parts of his massy mind, I would direct my attention; but to those veins of a primitive formation, which, now that time has loosened and removed all else, still stand out as the iron frame work of his being. ”
- Jones Very- Copy
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