Quotes About Bloodletting

#1. The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally evolved since then. You go in, sit down, they put a tourniquet on your arm, stick you with a needle, take these tubes and tubes of blood.

Elizabeth Holmes

#2. I figured Katie was likely swimming in blood. Ick. I looked at the moon and judged that the bloodletting took over two hours before Sabina called a halt by saying words I didn't understand, in French, or Latin, or Mandarin for all I knew.

Faith Hunter

#3. I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.

Cormac McCarthy

#4. Let the juices that are stirred into new life flow at this creative bloodletting of our artistic beings. (Zoltan Galos)

Z.J. Galos

#5. I'll walk the plank and I'll jump with a smile, cause if I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style.

Ani DiFranco

#6. About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

Art Alexakis

#7. As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

Jane Jacobs

#8. My Uncle, of course, would have been pleased to see someone with brown skin holding the office of president.

Alveda King

#9. We're the first generation that doesn't need to be afraid of the media. We will become the media

Christy Haubegger

#10. Moderation is the key to old age and the doorway to boredom

Benny Bellamacina

#11. Don't even FRONT like you love your family, America, or God, if you don't have a DETAILED & REHEARSED Black Friday tactical shopping plan.

Rob Delaney

#12. We can bear up under everything, if we have only the certainty that the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed.

Friedrich Kellner

#13. Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#14. In March 1853 she was afflicted with a pain in the chest; her tongue seemed to be covered with a film; leeches failed to make her breathing any easier.

Gustave Flaubert

#15. To every place at once, and, nowhere fixt,
The mind and sight distractedly commixt.

William Shakespeare

#16. We are going to start winning again. We don't win on trade, we can't beat Isil. We are going to win so much. We are going to make America greater than ever before.

Donald Trump

#17. It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.

Mary Renault

#18. We're having too good a time today. We ain't thinking about tomorrow.

John Dillinger

#19. A so-called antimony war had been waged between French [Galenist] physicians and [alchemical, Paracelsian] iatrochemists since the beginning of the seventeenth century. What it lacked in bloodletting, this war made up for in bile.

Philip Ball

#20. Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.

Chris Rock

#21. There are numerous historical reports as well as visual images that link mushroom consumption to the ritual of sacrifice. These include bloodletting, penis perforation, and even the improbable act of self-decapitation.

John Rush

#22. I didn't handle fame very well at first. I got a little resentful.

Paul Henderson

#23. Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

Nadine Gordimer

#24. I am very interested in asking questions, and I am very interested in being involved in shows that ask people to think and feel.

Thomas Sadoski

#25. Nothing but sunrise and sunsetting
Men fighting the things that are-
Birthgiving and bloodletting
And a drunk god snoring afar.

Dan Levin

#26. I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.

Chris Rock

#27. In the Middle Ages, bloodletting was often performed by barbers, which is why the traditional barber's pole - like the bloody towels that once hung outside barber shops - is colored red and white.

Cary McNeal

#28. I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#29. Ach bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.

Bill Clinton

#30. Vamps are really only like ten percent fun at any given time. The other ninety percent is largely fretting. And bloodletting.

Chloe Neill

#31. We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting

Nazim Hikmet

#32. Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed.

Al Swearengen

#33. When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation ... they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.

Lee Iacocca