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  • No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.

    "The Downing Street Years". Book by Margaret Thatcher, October 18, 1993.
  • Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests.

    God   Stupidity   Leeches  
  • With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.

  • Rule by the statist elite is not benign or simply a matter of who happens to be in office: it is rule by a growing army of leeches and parasites battening off the income and wealth of hard-working Americans, destroying their property, corrupting their customs and institutions, sneering at their religion.

    Hard Work   Army   Office  
  • I'm baptized by America and covered in leeches.

    Song: Bin Laden
  • I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I'm always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound like I'm against chemotherapy. Right now, chemotherapy is the best cancer treatment therapy we have. But let's say we find some way where we can almost genetically engineer the DNA of our being and fight cancer that way. Then, the idea that we used to pump poison into people to fight off cancer will almost seem like the use of leeches or something.

    "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.
  • In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

    Pride   Artist   Serious  
  • To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

    "The Downing Street Years". Book by Margaret Thatcher, October 18, 1993.
  • It’s millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and a lot of life in America.

    "Jay Severin’s Insanely Racist Rant" by Cenk Uygur, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2009.
  • Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife.

    Wife   Leeches   Want  
  • She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.

  • Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

  • Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric.

  • Rather, very, little, pretty - these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the adjective little (except to indicate size) is particularly debilitating; we should all try to do a little better, we should all be very watchful of this rule, for it is a rather important one, and we are pretty sure to violate it now and then.

    "The Elements of Style". Book by William Strunk Jr. Chapter V: "An Approach to Style", 1918.
  • Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land.

    Land   Joy   Soul  
    Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.22, Bantam
  • Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.

    Leeches   Should  
    The Canon Bk IV
  • If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!

    Blood   Tea   Leeches  
  • Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.

    Dark   Doctors   Age  
    Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.219, Simon and Schuster
  • I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry.

    Mean   Thinking   Feet  
  • ...."we saw this big dark red leech hanging off his back. We were dancing round yelling: ‘We’ll burn it off! Get the petrol! Stay still Mr Kassar, you can trust us!’ He wimped out though, and made us use salt. Very boring.

    Dark   Yelling   Dancing  
    John Marsden (2000). “Burning for Revenge”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

    Kissing   Race   Squids  
    Aldous Huxley (1992). “Ape and Essence: A Novel”, p.19, Ivan R. Dee
  • For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp is left, become a massive, sick Thing whose sheer weight is used ruthlessly by ambitious men. Here is the real enemy of the people: our own selves dehumanized into the masses. And where is the David who can slay this giant?

    Dream   Real   Men  
  • ...one exploiting sect, one people of leeches, one single devouring parasite closely and intimately bound together not only across national boundaries, but also across all divergences of political opinion ... [Jews have] that mercantile passion which constitutes one of the principle traits of their national character

  • You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!

    "The Shadow on The Dial and Other Essays". Book by Ambrose Bierce, www.pub22.net. 1909.
  • I don't get pat down, you know what's on the waist, I don't mean Jazz when I say I "count base." Fly Louis sneakers, Purple Tape coming out the speakers, Bumped into my high school teachers, They said I wouldn't be nothing, sitting on the bleachers. Now I'm sitting in the Phantom, trynna figure out the features. I'm a big fish now, I watch for the leeches.

    Teacher   Rap   School  
  • In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

    Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.191, Cosimo, Inc.
  • If I sat back and decided to sell the product of my father and my grandfather's work, like a leech, you know I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror... I want to be able to look at my father in 10 years' time and say, 'I'm proud of you, and you should be proud of me.'

    Father   Mirrors   Years  
  • The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

    Memories   Men   Years  
    George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.359, Bantam
  • When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.

    Queens   Hate   Ideas  
    Connie Willis (2011). “Impossible Things”, p.89, Spectra
  • The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and new economy is making lots more poor or recognize their fellowship with the insecurity of the poor, the portion of the population for whom the system does not work.

    Source: therumpus.net
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