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Quotes About Arms

When he sipped the champagne she teased him, surely gods should not partake of alcohol, and he answered with a line he had once read in an interview with the Aga Khan, O, you know, this champagne is only for outward show, the moment it touches my lips it turns to water. After that it didn't take long for her to touch his lips and deliquesce into his arms.
~ Salman Rushdie
A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
~ John Adams
my pleasure was in the strength of my back, in my noble shoulders, the cool smooth flesh cylinders of my arms.
~ Denise Levertov
Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
~ Robert Kennedy
The reckless open their arms and topple into love, as do dreamers, who fly in their dreams without fear or danger. Those who know that all love must end in loss do not fall but rather cross slowly from the not knowing into the knowing.
~ Aminatta Forna
No, by my soul, I never in my life Did hear a challenge urged more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms.
~ William Shakespeare
She wandered as though in a dream, through the wavering sea of barley, touched with crimson stains of poppies. All unobserved, he came to her…There came from his lips no wordy protestations such as formal lovers use. No eloquence was his, nor did he suffer for lack of it. He simply enfolded her in his manly arms…
~ E.M. Forster
Yet the son ?Seemed worthy, for his parts were of that mould Oft-failing Nature strives to join in one, ?And shape a hero,—pure and wise and bold: In arts and arms the wonder of his peers, The flower of princes, prince of cavaliers;
~ Edmund Clarence Stedman
That which her slender waist confin'dShall now my joyful temples bind;No monarch but would give his crownHis arms might do what this has done.
~ Edmund Waller
A hug delights and warms and charms, that must be why God gave us arms.
~ Anonymous
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.
~ Anonymous
I have a present for you, but I need to borrow your arms for wrapping paper.
~ Anonymous
In the infinite permutations of an ice crystal, everything repeats itself, but, really, from another point of view, nothing repeats itself. The arms go out, forming dendrites, sectored plates, the same angle every time, but the final product – because of wind, because of molecular vibration, because of rate of growth and temperature – is never the same.
~ Anthony Doerr
What ways? Whom have you put your trust in?" "You have to trust someone sometime." "If your same blood doesn't run in the arms and legs of the person you're next to, you can't trust anything. And even then. It's not a person you wish to fight, Madame, it's a system. How do you fight a system?" "You try.
~ Anthony Doerr
Her arms are wrapped around her head and her wool blanket is twisted around her midsection and her pillow is jammed into the crack between mattress and wall—even in sleep, a tableau of friction.
~ Anthony Doerr
But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.
~ Frank Herbert
Bitterness I understand, the Duke said. But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and freedom to use them.
~ Frank Herbert
The Duke said: "Paul, I'm doing a hateful thing, but I must." He stood beside the portable poison snooper that had been brought into the conference room for their breakfast. The thing's sensor arms hung limply over the table, reminding Paul of some weird insect newly dead. The Duke's
~ Frank Herbert
Bitterness I understand," the Duke said. "But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.
~ Frank Herbert
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
~ Frank Herbert
Justice? Who asks for justice. We make our own justice. We make it here on Arrakis—win or die. Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.
~ Frank Herbert
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.
~ Franz Kafka
And it really was kind of the moon to shine on me, too, and out of modesty I was about to place myself under the arch of the tower bridge when it occurred to me that the moon, of course, shone on everything. So I happily spread out my arms in order fully to enjoy the moon.
~ Franz Kafka