The only thing harder than Terry Funk‘s legs are his arteries.

It takes a strong heart to drive on clogged arteries.

He imagines Owens’ body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery.

If I don’t run for a few days, I feel like my insides are dirty. The run kind of scrubs my veins and arteries, and then all starts to feel right with the world. I’m not one of those fanatical people that if I miss a run, I go nuts. But when it’s something you love, you make sure you have the time to do it.

The number of human deaths due to hardening of the arteries and other similar diseases suggests that human beings were not meant to eat animals; our bodies are unable to digest the animal fat effectively and it ends up stored in our blood vessels, not to mention our waist lines, buttocks and thighs!

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.

We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people.

Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.

Some people think plant-based diet, whole foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme.

He: What’s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, “but there was nothing the matter with her.

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

Broadway is a main artery of New York life – the hardened artery.

If some people think, “Why am I eating a dead bird soaked in poop?” I think if some people get disgusted by that, it’s all to the good. Their coronary arteries will be healthier.

If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.

…seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth‘s crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.

Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.

The roots of love sink down and deep and strike out far, and they are arteries that feed our lives, so we must see that they get the water and sun they need so they can nourish us. And when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.

My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer‘s.

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth.

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries–seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

For example, in Vitamin K, the clotting proteins get it first… and
only after they’re satisfied do you prevent calcification of the arteries,
or prevent cancer, or prevent bone fractures. It’s all insidious damage
that you get that’s a long term consequence. In fact, we call these the
diseases of aging.

For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.

My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick’s Day, 1978.

The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.

The bike went up in the air and landed on my back. It broke my neck, smashed my collarbone and splinters of bone severed my main artery. My lung п¬Ѓlled up with blood. I severed my nerves and to this day I have no feeling there.

Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don’t numb themselves to really living.

Faith is the vital artery of the soul. When we begin to believe, we begin to love. Faith grafts the soul into Christ, as the scion into the stock, and fetches all its nutriment from the blessed Vine.