Bloody Quotations

If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government.

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.

The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.

'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.

From an actor's point of view, if you are watching something, and you see improv, you know it. Because of your experience, you just bloody know that wasn't written.

Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.

I dished out and suffered my fair share of bloody noses.

I'm big on this 'no budget, no pay.' I think that's important. Let's get right at the heart of the issue. Even when I was in the state legislature, the most important function we had was to pass the bloody budget.

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.

I can understand why those bands do it. It can be a hell of a lot of bloody fun. People are allowed to have a bit of fun after the age of 40, and a lot of them do need the money.

The thing about darts is that you've got to shout. It's not like cricket where you can talk to Michael Atherton and ask him to analyse the bloody nuances. Darts does not have nuances. You've got to hurl yourself at it.

Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

Look, you do the bloody well best you can. You fumble. You make mistakes.

'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling.

I genuinely don't care about the 'number one' tag. That's not my goal. You know, no one does that with heroes, but with actresses it's the same number game. It's not a bloody pageant. Everyone has something unique to offer.

Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

Well, it's not hard to be number one entertaining Jew. Some of them are quite bleeding bloody miserable, really.

Danny Trejo is so bloody cool, I mean, he can just stand there and look cool.

I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.

I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.

It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.

If you cut down the forest, you know what happens: The whole of Asia turns into a desert. Without water, you're talking civil unrest, war, mud slides - the whole bloody lot.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.

It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

We're good at what we do because we're a family - this is in our bloody DNA; this is what we do.

It was bloody difficult getting followed around all the time.

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

Actually, I never liked the idea of bags. I would say, 'Why do so many of my friends spend so much money on these bloody bags?' But once I started designing them, I was completely hooked. There are all of these blogs about bags. It's a whole other industry, and I'm really excited to be a part of it.

I do think that it's better for a musical to live its life first because if you see it on the screen, would you like to go to the theater after that? Probably not. You've seen it. And that's the mystery of a musical that hasn't been filmed. You're bloody meant to go there and buy your ticket.

You read about poor people having Botox go wrong and you think: 'Well, what the bloody hell were you doing?' Why would you inject yourself with poison? And why are we spending so much time looking at ourselves? I just don't get it.

It took us a lot of man hours to get that bloody white hair out, so it's good to get rid of it.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are dying or have died. It's just the life cycle.

I hold Bond dear to my heart. I've traveled the world as an ambassador for that character, and I had a bloody great time doing it.

I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.

When I left school I went on trip around the world-I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.

One non-revolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of permanent revolution.

My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats, and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!

Six persons have been confirmed dead and three others sustained injures in the bloody incident.

Max is so bloody thick sometimes. He could have got double that.

Sharon's absence removes from the political scene a professional killer who mastered the murder of Palestinians and addressed the most violent, brutal and bloody strikes in the history of the Arab-Israeli struggle. The Palestinian people can only hope that what is coming is better, not worse.

God is love? Not bloody likely.

Given that he (Major) has told me in writing that those who were killed on Bloody Sunday should be regarded as innocent of any allegation that they were shot while handling firearms or explosives -- if that is the case, could he please tell me why they were shot?

If Bush is willing to go to the mat for somebody, the odds are good that, at the end of the day, no matter how bloody the battle has been, he can get that person confirmed.

I expected to find a bloody computer monitor in my bed the next day.

I bogeyed the first on Friday but from there went 53 holes without a bogey. That's a bloody long time around this course.

I felt absolutely sick about the stoppage, I feel that when you have two big guys in the ring like this the referee's have to accept the fact that a bloody nose is considered extremely minor as an injury.

I have starred in the endless sky, where only clouds can run free, understanding that if will go beyond those clouds, if I conquer the entire universe I will conquer NOTHING, because this is a lie too, as big as I am, a mere Illusion of my Life or other bloody illusions of the lives of other that loose themselves in their reflection in other destinies giving birth to the historical evolution of this lie and with it to the holy book of the spirituality of peoples, in fact the holy book of the spirituality of illusions that were once reflected as images, just like flashes in the Great Void-Being.

He walked out the bloody door and was never around. I'd admire him on TV -- listen to his words and opinions. But for someone who was praised for peace and love and wasn't able to keep that at home, that's hypocrisy.

He was so bloody you couldn't tell his injuries till the medics came and cut his shirt off He was shot all over the back with a shotgun.

I am in no doubt but you will be able to conquer America at last, but a horrid bloody scene will be opened here as never was in New England before.

My real fear is that there will be revenge acts. That has happened in the past. That could be very bloody and lead to more serious problems.

Somehow, he knows which dogs are nice. One dog tried to bite him, and Chester gave the dog a bloody nose.

PiAno,piAno'It's not a bloody piano, its a clarenARt...you weird talking person.

I saw Bally's picture and I thought I'd come second. I was bloody pumped to come second,

Jesus did. I was hopping along, when suddenly he comes and cures me. One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next moment me livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by your leave. Look. I'm not saying that being a leper was a bowl of cherries. But it was a living. I mean, you try waving muscular suntanned limbs in people's faces demanding compassion. It's a bloody disaster.

Julien MacDonald may have been able to ignore images of bloody skinned animals gasping for breath in the past, but hopefully a dash of flour will help him rise to the occasion and forsake fur once and for all.

I'm sitting here in front of my computer screen trying to figure the bloody thing out.

Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.

I think ticket prices are too high, but it costs so bloody much money to get anything together anymore.

It got bloody and it got messy. There was a huge amount of work done by a tremendous Italian stunt team ... and we'd be thrown into the melee.

I think it's just bloody disgusting what they're doing to him.

When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.

We have clearly heard their message: Don't abandon us at this crucial time and risk a return to the bloody nightmare that we lived through for so many years.

I was bloody nervous - the pressure was on,

The 3D thing has been abused slightly, I think. There is no question about that. 'Avatar' did it magnificently, and then, of course, there was the old 'leaping on the bandwagon' thing where there have been one or two films which, let's face it, all know look bloody awful with the 3D.

Where was the bloody advertising for Wife Swap as it seemed to be quite accidental that me and the wife ended up watching it?

We recorded this song about six years ago in Australia. It didn't do a bloody thing then, and I don't think this version will do anything today.

Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.

The real change is that for the first time we have three people in the leading parties ... and none have the reputation or the record of a heroic military general or a bloody ruthless fighter.

I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.

We're looking into that segment. We're doing it now. But we want to go into that market in a very controlled way. We won't enter into that bloody competition right away.

I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.

Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.

The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough to organize around this, and seek power to enforce it, will invariably descend into a bloody totalitarian fascism.

Football, bloody hell!

What I don't like is having to be on set and working your bollocks off and some bloody production assistant hasn't got the bag of crisps you need.

Well, that's a big bloody help to me,

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

U2 are a great band; they've given us an unbelievable body of work, and all of us musicians owe them at least something. I can honestly say that every time I have played the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, as soon as my drums are set up, I go into the beat of 'Sunday Bloody Sunday.'

I’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out?

I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.

What's past is past, it's too bloody late to do anything else. I've been very blessed and lucky in my life. To want to change the path of destiny is kind of a mistake, it leads to discontent. I don't feel complacent, but I feel content.

We stole countries with the cunning use of flags! Yeah, just sail around the world and stick a flag in. - I claim India for Britain!They go, - You can't claim us, we live here! 500 million of us!- Do you have a flag?- We don't need a bloody flag! It's our country, you bastards!- No flag, no country, you can't have one! That's the rules that I've just made up, and I'm backing it up with this gun that was lent from the National Rifle Association.

And theres others like taxidermist! You cant just go, Oh, I was just working at the chip shop, and I just started stuffing animals with sand, you know? Youve gotta want to be! I want to be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand. (mimes stuffing an animal) I wanna get more sand into an animal than anybody has ever bloody got in one. I wanna fill a rat with the entire Gobi Desert, so its really quite tight.

Bloody men are like bloody buses -- you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

Every day is a GIFT... But can anybody tell me where to Return these bloody MONDAY's....

A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

I've been so bloody respectable and responsible... I'm going to be a bloody old nuisance.

These were professionals, seeking to report on a bloody conflict that has already taken too many lives, ... They were doing what other journalists are doing around the world -- taking risks so that the rest of us can keep informed.