Arms Quotes
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"Let us embrace each other like we have the arms of two chairs. Let us dance like our legs are those of a table. We should do dinner sometime."
"I have rubbed shoulders with the rich, the powerful, and the armless. It’s how to network when handshakes aren’t an option."
"Squeeze out the competition—with hugs. I’m giving out FREE hugs while samples last. After that I’ll have to charge an arm and a leg—or maybe just two arms."
"I held her gaze as I held her in my arms. With all that holding I couldn’t hold on to the moment, and it slipped past me into the lonely past."
"A windmill has arms, but does not hug. Where’s the love?"
"My arms are too short to box with God."
"The memory of her love shimmers the way white light ripples gently on the midnight river, and I am currently thirsting to swim in the current that will flow downstream into her wading and waiting arms."
"Just because I flap my arms, that doesn’t make me a bird. No, I’m a bird because I believe myself to be. That’s the power of faith."
"When I hold you in my arms, I live inside your rainbow and you live inside mine."
"For it is up to you and meto take solacein nostalgia's armsand our abilityto create the everlastingfrom fleeting moments."
"i want to stay curled and cosiedand chocolated....foreverin my mother’s arms."
"Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her social programmes."
"A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that’s gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change."
"Sir Edward Grey echoed this: More than one true thing may be said about the causes of the war, but the statement that comprises most truth is that militarism and the armaments inseparable from it made war inevitable. Armaments were intended to produce a sense of security in each nation – that was the justification put forward in defence of them. What they really did was to produce fear in everybody."
Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
"When twilight sleeps holding the nightIn your arms you embrace me tightRunaway hours clenched by kisses More of your love my heart misses"
"Usually, when I dream of flying I am simply flapping my arms and somehow I lift off and glide through the sky. Last night was different. I missed you so much and my yearning was so powerful that I sprouted wings like a phoenix and soared to reach you. And now I finally understand: if you see lovers on a roof, do not worry. Surely, love has metamorphosed them."
"Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down."
"What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?"
"Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace."
"There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be an Answer."
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
"Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet."
"News Flash!All politicians arms are going to be lengthened so that they will be able to pat themselves on the back for doing a great job."
"Echo of the waves appears in the sky, their lights reflected in your eyes. I'm back in our world and happy again. The sound of your voice, compassionate embrace... The power in your touch, serenity of stride... The beating of your heart calms down my presence, gracing with eternal peace of mind... Bathing in the sunshine of your arms I'm deeply aware of the melodic stream that has no language...gliding beneath the quiet Heaven of your eyes..."
"Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy."
"When the Earth basks in the Sun's brilliance, you'll find me there with my arms spread wide and my face with a smile."
"When I write...I am in the fond armsof a childhood friendupon whose colorful heart I can hang the charcoal drawingsof my woes."
"Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there’s something dead about it, something deserted."
"Sometimes all we need is a hug that will make us feel home. The heartbeats that sound like a lullaby and the eyes which assure us that the world is not such a bad a place yet every time we stare into them."
"Stay in my arms and look into my eyes, into that light which exists only because of you. You will find all the reasons to stay in this world which have the habit of breaking you every time."
"The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing."
"We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind.""Oh, no! You think so?""Yes.""But... no... you can't be right. Because Nobby was with us all the time.""Not Nobby," said Vimes testily. "Whatever he might do to a dragon, I doubt if he'd make it explode. There's stranger people in this world than Corporal Nobbs, my lad."Carrot's expression slid into a rictus of intrigued horror."Gosh," he said."
"I will love to be called a foolish man of peace, than to be named a wise man of war. Show me your weapons of war and I will show you my Bible of peace!"
"Soothing the exhaustionIn my soul,So I can fall back skyward,Safe in your arms,And survive to dream again."
"I would far prefer to be in someone's arms than just in their head."
"There's not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else's arms."
"This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm."
"She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away."
"She fell into his arms like the rainfall over an ocean."
"I will always continue to love the way how the fire inside you burnt everyone around it, But took me in its arms and kept me warm."
"The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces."
"A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight."
"To feel your arms around me...to feel your breath on my neck...is pleasure in itself. It is home."
"I knew you were the one when I realized your smile was my heaven, your laugh my favorite song, and your arms my home."
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
"...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life."
"I follow the path we’ve taken so many times this summer – across the front, down the street, cut back through a neighbor’s yard, down the stairs to the beach, past the pier, through the campfire labyrinth, up to the deck of the Shack, and straight into Sam’s arms. Without speaking, he kisses me hard on the mouth and I kiss him back, sobbing and crumpling into his chest like a broken puppet."
"It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia the police used to have artillery."
"The best place to cry is on a mother's arms."
"Elizabeth’s tears had wrung my heart: I longed to enfold her in my arms, to comfort her, but I knewit would be infamous indeed to take such advantage of her distress."
"I'm miles from where you areI lay down on the cold groundAnd I, I pray that something picks me upAnd sets me down in your warm arms."
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