Quotes About Arms
Although we usually don't notice them until long after they have passed, there are moments in life when everything hangs in the balance. There are moments when we really can change the future. When those moments come, either you lift your arms and fly, or you don't. There's nothing in between.
~ Unknown
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When our wars are determined not by the threat of Nazism or racism or Communism but by the influence on policy-makers of those those who stand to reap financial benefits from the use of these arms - that, Charlie, is my biggest fear for this country.
~ Jake Tapper
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On July 12, 1789, the young journalist Camille Desmoulins jumped onto a café table in the Palais Royal in Paris and exhorted his listeners to take up arms to defend freedom. In this way, it might be said that coffee led eventually to revolution.26
~ Unknown
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Origen, the great Alexandrian church father in the first half of the third century, admitted the truth of the charge "that Christians decline public offices," and declared those persons "enemies of our faith who require us to bear arms for the commonwealth and to slay men.
~ Unknown
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Water still streamed from his hair, and I watched it bead, tracing across his arms and the lines of his chest.
~ Madeline Miller
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Tremble ye Nations who secure before, 115 Laught at those Arms that' gainst our selves we bore;
~ John Dryden
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They justified their taking up arms against their queen by claiming they had already obtained the damning evidence
~ John Guy
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the cardinal ordered the heraldic arms of England to be blazoned with those of France and Scotland
~ John Guy
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In my arms, which I realized had grown very strong, I held the former Big Ten star, who was as heavy and meaningful, to me, as our family bear, and I stared into the short distance that separated us from Sorrow.
~ John Irving
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We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain.
~ John M. Perkins
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There's nothing in life that makes me happier than loving you. You're my sunshine in the morning and my starlight in the night. You hold me in your arms and make my whole world seem bright.
~ Unknown
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I love it when you look at me, with those eyes of ocean blue, I love it when you say my name, our love is strong and true, I love it when you hold me close, I miss you in my arms, I need your arms around me to protect me from all harm.
~ Unknown
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When you find that weariness depresses or amusement distracts you, you will calmly turn with an untroubled spirit to your Heavenly Father, who is always holding out His arms to you. You will look to Him for gladness and refreshment when depressed, for moderation and recollection when in good spirits, and you will find that He will never leave you to want.
~ Francois Fenelon
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It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?—No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink—Here you are again, it says, and so am I.
~ Maggie Nelson
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72. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?—No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink—Here you are again, it says, and so am I.
~ Maggie Nelson
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It it easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep my company within it? - No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink - Here you are again, and so am I.
~ Maggie Nelson
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Expression triumphant and fierce, arms lifted to the night sky as if it were hers to rule, who was this stunning creature?
~ Unknown
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Say they who counsel war; 'we are decreed, Reserved, and destined to eternal woe; Whatever doing, what can we suffer more, What can we suffer worse?' Is this then worst, Thus sitting, thus consulting, thus in arms? What when we fled amain, pursued and struck With Heaven's afflicting thunder, and besought The Deep to shelter us? This Hell then seemed A refuge from those wounds. Or when we lay Chained on the burning lake? That sure was worse.
~ John Milton
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Whilst wretched Man is still in Arms for fear For fear he armes, and is of Armes afraid.
~ John Wilmot
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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
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Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
~ Thomas Paine
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A celebrated specialist in nervous diseases was, however, a more dangerous rival. He was a rubicund, jovial person, since, for one thing, the constant society of nervous wrecks did not prevent him from enjoying excellent health, but also so as to reassure his patients by the hearty merriment of his 'Good morning' and 'Good-bye,' while quite ready to lend the strength of his muscular arms to fastening them in strait-waistcoats later on
~ Marcel Proust
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One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. (On Soviet and Allied missiles in Europe)
~ Unknown
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What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
~ Thomas Jefferson
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