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Quotes About Arms

As the flame of longing burns, even if does not arrive beloved, in the arms of melodies, dance
~ Shah Asad Rizvi
because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
The United States, under Reagan, cynically tried to have it both ways, publicly backing Iraq while secretly selling arms to Iran.)
~ Barack Obama
and my wife beaming down from the upper gallery in her sleeveless dress (that was when the cult of Michelle's arms truly took off), waving
~ Barack Obama
break a few legs off the gingerbread men Lilith gave me the night of the Town Hall meeting. The gingerbread legs led to a few arms, which led to biting their heads off, and let's face it, what was the point of saving gingerbread torsos?
~ Barbara Bretton
She raised her arms away from her sides and looked at me. She smiled in that sly, subversive way she had—teasing, but also amused, and inviting the recipient of the smile to join in the amusement. "You're not going to search me?
~ Barry Eisler
siblings ran the overt and covert arms of foreign policy.
~ Stephen Kinzer
Right now we're in an arms race with the microbes, because, effectively, we're operating on the same scale that they are. The viruses are both our enemy and our arms manufacturer.
~ Steven Johnson
In Europe, first the state disarmed the people and claimed a monopoly on violence, then the people took over the apparatus of the state. In America, the people took over the state before it had forced them to lay down their arms –which, as the Second Amendment famously affirms, they reserve the right to keep and bear.
~ Steven Pinker
Love is the Divine Mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every Soul falls Into them.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
A revolution, woven in the dim light of mystery, has kept me from you. Another revolution will return me to your arms, bring me back to life.
~ Jose Rizal
In Madison's formulation, the right to bear arms was not inherent but derivative, depending on service in the militia. The recent Supreme Court decision (Heller v. District of Columbia, 2008) that found the right to bear arms an inherent and nearly unlimited right is clearly at odds with Madison's original intentions.37
~ Joseph J. Ellis
I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.
~ Eudora Welty
I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.
~ Rand Paul
I'm for the constitutional right to bear arms. I'm a hunter, and so is my son.
~ Bill Nelson
This isn't about deer hunting. The Second Amendment is about our right to keep and bear arms to defend ourselves.
~ Jeff Duncan
Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?
~ Khaleda Zia
Indeed, it is quite sad to see the United States becoming the main exporter of arms. It is quite sad to look at the U.S. government subsidizing arms exports.
~ Óscar Arias
In the theater it is better to have long arms, long rather than short: an actor with short arms can never make a fine gesture!
~ bernhardt sarah ii
The Chinese Communist rebels want twenty million dollars to purchase arms for themselves to battle China's Japanese occupiers.
~ Bill O'Reilly
An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong.
~ Dennis Banks
she couldn't hep but think abut the loss of her father, and how such a condition became constat, like an appendage or tumor. Hello, this is I, and these my arms and legs, wich are useful, and this inconvenient hump is my sorrow, which is less that useful, but I've learned how to hump it about with me, so pay it no mind.
~ Gregory Maguire
The spectacle is the epic poem of this struggle, a struggle that no fall of Troy can bring to an end. The spectacle does not sing of men and their arms, but of commodities and their passions.
~ Guy Debord
As a matter of fact, states everywhere are highly intent on outlawing or at least controlling even the mere possession of arms by private citizens—and most states have indeed succeeded in this task—as an armed man is clearly more of a threat to any aggressor than an unarmed man. It bears much less risk for the state to keep things peaceful while its own aggression continues, if rifles with which the taxman could be shot are out of the reach of everyone except the taxman himself!
~ Hans-Hermann Hoppe