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Quotes About Arms

Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president.
~ Stephen Dorff
Issues of energy, climate change, nuclear arms control and non-proliferation are all big deals. These are problems that we have to get right globally, not just nationally, and there are big benefits in cooperating, in terms of sharing costs, in terms of sharing risks, in terms of propagating the best answers.
~ John Holdren
Here, on the farther shore of the sunset, with the flushed tide at his feet, and the large star flashing with strange laughter, did he himself naked walk with lifted arms into the quiet flood of life.
~ D.H. Lawrence
V. THE COMING OF THE LORD How the Negro became free because the North could not win the Civil War if he remained in slavery. And how arms in his hands, and the prospect of arms in a million more black hands, brought peace and emancipation to America.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
As I see my soul reflected in Nature, As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible completeness, sanity, beauty, See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the Female I see.
~ Walt Whitman
The Chiefs of Glengarry, Keppoch, and Lochiel, whose clans, equal in courage and military fame to any in the Highlands, lay within the neighbourhood of the scene of action, dispatched the fiery cross through their vassals, to summon every one who could bear arms to meet the King's lieutenant, and to join the standards of their respective Chiefs, as they marched towards Inverlochy.
~ Walter Scott
He wanted to offer her the comfort of his home, shelter in his arms, pleasure from his body.
~ Charlotte Featherstone
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
~ Che Guevara
He was as tempestuous of exterior, as hearty of manner and as stormy of voice as ever, — and just as good a man as exists anywhere. His legs, and arms, and back, and breast, were just as splendid as ever with grand red and blue anchors, and ships and flags, and goddesses of liberty, done in the perfection of the tattooing art.
~ Mark Twain, 1868
When a fresh springtime breeze embraces you — fling your arms wide open and hug it right back!
~ Terri Guillemets
Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
~ Hans Blix
The swift red flesh, a winter king—Who squired the glacier woman down the sky?She ran the neighing canyons all the spring;She spouted arms; she rose with maize—to die.
~ Hart Crane
Sleeping in your arms was like floating in a dream, carrying me to bed was like falling from your arms onto a love heart cloud.
~ Heather Lydia Thornhill
Now, taking books, or anything else, from a little girl is like taking arms from an Arab, or candy from a baby...
~ James Thurber
Journalist Philip Gourevitch reports an interview with a Rwandan lawyer who said: "Conformity is very deep, very developed here. In Rwandan history, everyone obeys authority. People revere power, and there isn't enough education. You take a poor, ignorant population, and give them arms, and say, 'It's yours. Kill.' They'll obey.
~ James Waller
I so ill deserve the place his arms make for me.
~ James Whitcomb Riley
Give winter nothing; hold; and let the flake Poise or dissolve along your upheld arms. All flawless hexagons may melt and break; While you must feel the summer's rage of fire, Beyond this frigid season's empty storms. Banished to bloom, and bear the birds' desire.
~ James Wright
A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.
~ Jane Austen
For decades, Europe and America have been selling arms, both officially and on the black market, to the very people you now label 'terrorists.' War and business, always they go hand in hand—it's realpolitik. Nothing ever really changes, human nature is what it is.
~ Jane Johnson
The salt smell of the ocean, sharp and steady, called to her from the window. Looking out, she saw her sisters, the waves, beckoning her with their white arms.
~ Jane Yolen
Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a political path would have been unthinkable once. It shows just what is possible.
~ James Nesbitt
Walking strengthens my legs, and I swing my arms to tone my upper body.
~ Christy Turlington
My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.
~ Katherine Heigl
Already, rumors had reached a fever pitch, that ruthless men including Dirty Sock Jack, Cold Chuck Johnny, Black Jack Bill, Dynamite Sam, Rowdy Joe, and Shotgun Collins had flocked to Dodge City when Bat and Wyatt had sent out a call to arms.
~ Tom Clavin