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Letter "B" » blood relation
«There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
| Keywords:
assumes, blood relation, channel, clogged, clogging, disturbances, falsely, local, mystical, relation to, supernatural, unrelated
«Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable»
Author: Hosea Ballou
| Keywords:
blamable, blood relation, exaggeration, exaggerations, falsehood, relation, relation to
«Knavery and flattery are blood relations.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Flattery,
Relationships
| Keywords:
blood relation, knavery
«Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Blood and, blood relation, bones, design, dimension, elements, flux, fourth, fourth dimension, invent, recognition, relation, various
«I don't like your miserable lonely single ''front name.'' It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
afloat, bad blood, bad hat, blood relation, flat, jacket, meager, One Blood, sense of responsibility, threadbare, versatility, wear down, weighted, worn
«In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
altars, binding, blood relation, charities, cherishing, combined, dearest, domestic, fundamental law, Fundamental Laws, hearths, inseparable, mutually, polity, reflected, Ties That Bind
«Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquaintance, blood relation, choke, choke up, distant, fumble, fumbles, fumbling, handkerchief, handkerchiefs, intimate, relation, sigh, sob, sobbed, sobbing, sobs, stranger, sympathetically
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