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religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood. -- Evelyn Underhill
When John Murtha, for example, said the Marines are killing innocent civilians in cold blood. -- George W. Bush
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood. -- Billy Joel
Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?""Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir. -- Terry Pratchett
I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad. -- Tupac Shakur
Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man. -- Diana Gabaldon
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. -- Arnold H. Glasow
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. -- Aldous Huxley
A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species. -- Frederick the Great
The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart. -- Harry S. Truman
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven. -- George Bernard Shaw
We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real. -- William James
Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. -- Mark Twain
For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic. -- Harper Lee
Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack. -- Terry Pratchett
The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Evolution was Vladimir Ilich Lenin's problem. Lenin lead the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and took over Russia. He killed the Zar [ sic ] and his family in cold blood. There would not be communism in Russia today if had not been for Charles Darwin's book on evolution. -- Kent Hovind
These three brothers were not afforded the opportunity to defend themselves in a court of law. They were not given a fair and public trial. Paramilitaries, under the command of senior Ministry of Interior officials, denied them these rights and shot them in cold blood. -- Garry Robbins
I am going like a lamb to the slaughter; but I am calm as a summer's morning; I have a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards all men. I shall die innocent, and it shall be said of me-He was murdered in cold blood -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find. -- Tupac Shakur
Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three civil rights workers were murdered in cold blood. And the FBI head, Hoover, admits that they know who did it, they've known ever since it happened, and they've done nothing about it. Civil rights bill down the drain. -- Malcolm X
I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from individuals whose credibility is beyond question afford convincing proof that the Japanese Army behaved and is continuing to behave in a fashion reminiscent of Attila and his Huns. Not less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were slaughtered, many in cold blood. -- Koki Hirota
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. -- F. H. Bradley
In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime book that reads like fiction. -- Lisa Unger
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death. -- Zane Grey
I've always been a fan of books that create an interesting blend of fact and fiction - whether it's Norman Mailer, or 'The Short Timers,' or 'In Cold Blood.' I'm a fan of that genre. -- Mark Boal
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
I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play. -- Daniel Bruhl
In the cold, all the blood rushes to your core to protect your heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and brain. When you leave the water, the blood rushes back to your arms and legs, absorbs that freezing cold, and brings it back to the heart. -- Lewis Gordon Pugh
I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician. -- Jon Meacham
People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness. -- Howard E. Wasdin
I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain. -- Toby Jones
I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that dear Octavia has a reading age of 28. I remember trying to read 'In Cold Blood' at the age of twelve, and realising that just because you can read book doesn't mean you should. -- Meg Rosoff
I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood! -- Olivia De Havilland
Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold. -- Naomi Novik
A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold. -- Edmund Morgan
All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. -- William Shakespeare
My blood G cold, never seen my dad cry. And I'm a bleed your block til the cash dry! -- Vinnie Paz
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent. -- D. H. Lawrence
Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors -- Alejandra Pizarnik
You don't know what cold is until you've experienced the cold you feel when the blood is draining out of your body. -- Ry? Murakami
Francesca: It's still a bit cold yet. Michael: Never stopped John and me. Francesca: Yes, well, you're Scottish. Your blood circulates quite well half frozen. -- Julia Quinn
Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold We swore blood brothers against the wind I'm ready to grow young again -- Bruce Springsteen
Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world.... -- Edward Abbey
If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold. -- Anne Michaels
A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold; The hairs on his brow were silver white, And his blood was thin and old. -- Thomas Kibble Hervey

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