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Quotes About Arms

The phone rang. Joan Rochester leaped to her feet, but Dominick signaled her to sit with a wave of his hand. He wiped his face as though it were a windshield and rose from his seat. Dominick was a thick man. Not fat. Thick. Thick neck, thick shoulders, thick chest, thick arms and thighs. The
~ Harlan Coben
Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
~ Ted Nelson
I was never involved in arms trading. In the Russian Federation, arms trading is the prerogative of the state.
~ Roman Abramovich
The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did.
~ James Madison
God's unspotted faithfulness never failed any soul that durst trust himself in its arms.
~ John Flavel
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
~ Pope John XXIII
Before the problem of the creative writer, analysis must lay down its arms.
~ Sigmund Freud
Come out into the Universe of Light. Everything in the Universe is Yours, stretch out your arms and Embrace it with Love
~ Swami Vivekananda
You care for my daughter." "My love for her is stronger than my hatred of you. 'Tis why I'll not raise arms against you today. Instead I ask your aid in the battle against the McHughs.
~ Maya Banks
He smiled again as he settles more firmly against her and pulled her into his arms. Yeah, he wanted her, but this was...nice.
~ Maya Banks
I don't really know. I've never rescued a girl I love from the Furies before. He looked alarmed as he noticed my eyes were filling with tears. Don't cry. How can I not? I asked him. You just said you love me. Why else did you think all of this was happening? He set the book aside to wrap his arms around me. The Furies wouldn't be trying to kill you if I didn't love you.
~ Meg Cabot
Do people in the twenty-first century still dance? My heart beat thundered in my ears, far louder than the slow music. Um, I said, barely able to swallow, my throat had gone so dry. Sometimes. How about now? he asked. And then his strong arms were encircling my waist, his breath soft against my cheek as he gently whispered my name: Susannah. Susannah....
~ Meg Cabot
The magic girl licked the wet off her arms and looked over to me as if to say, See? You don't have to behave like them, you don't have to behave like anyone.
~ Melvin Burgess
The founders also knew that every government system risks corruption, and they wanted to make sure Americans would be able to defend themselves should the nation's leaders become tyrannical. To that end, they ratified the Second Amendment, guaranteeing the right of Americans to bear arms. An armed populace is a powerful deterrent to tyrants both domestically and internationally, and we must defend this liberty as part of our common defense.
~ Ben Carson
for next to God, who is our strength, all depends upon the valour of our arms.
~ Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Plenty of gun opponents have pointed out the obvious: that the Founding Fathers could never have envisioned the kinds of 'arms' that exist today - Washington, Jefferson, and the rest had never even seen a bullet. Musket balls for guns that required constant reloading were the 'arms' of the day.
~ Kurt Eichenwald
No one should take away people's rights. But with respect to 'the right to arm ourselves,' we have lost sight of our own history.
~ Cass Sunstein
In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships and into the arms of simulacrums with manners imported from simpler times.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
But convey this, above all, to your men: let them not yield preeminence in valor to the Spartans, rather strive to outdo them. Remember, in warfare practice of arms counts for little. Courage tells all, and we Spartans have no monopoly on that. Lead your men with this in mind and all will be well." TWENTY-THREE It was the standing order of my master on campaign that he be woken two hours before dawn, an hour prior to the men of his platoon.
~ Steven Pressfield
She held out the box of fudge. "I made this. I don't know if you like chocolate. If not, you could take it into the office or…" Instead of taking the candy, he grabbed her wrist and pulled her inside. The second the door closed behind her, she was in his arms, his mouth on hers.
~ Susan Mallery
You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.
~ Susan Neiman
The Squire came to the side of the bed, and put his arms under Dickon, and lifted the boy—in a dead sleep all the time—and carried him out so, at the door.
~ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
His leap was exact, mathematical. The initial arc - head tucked between taut arms that spread out gradually like wings - was as graceful as a swan dive.
~ Juan Filloy
When a father loved his daughter, his arms were always open, always strong, always ready for her.
~ Judith Arnold