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Quotes About Arms

As a tall guy, you always think the over-the-top pass is the easiest way out. But sometimes you can fake that, and throw it under their arms.
~ Marc Gasol
Prayer is a little like that. With simplicity of heart we allow ourselves to be gathered up into the arms of the Father and let him sing his love song over us.
~ Richard J. Foster
God, I got lucky. If I'd hurt it, it would have put me out of practice for a while." Smiling, he returned to his chair. "I know. You kept telling me that while I was carrying you. You were very upset." "You...you carried me here?" "After we broke the bench apart and freed your foot." Man. I'd missed out on a lot. The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.
~ Richelle Mead
One of the guardians distracted Ryan while the other - Dimitri, I now saw grabbed Camille. She screamed, not faking her fear. She apparently didn't find being in Dimitri's arms as thrilling as I did.
~ Richelle Mead
Love for her threatened to overwhelm me. I set down all my bags and drew her into my arms. That silly mug suddenly took on monumental significance, and looking down at her, at the face I loved so much, I could see the future she described, a future together where we could accomplish anything.
~ Richelle Mead
I signaled the bus-driver and he stopped the bus for me right outside the cottage, and I flew down the steps of the bus straight into the arms of the waiting mother.
~ Roald Dahl
An armed society is a polite society.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Her arms and shoulders and neck were strong. Her makeup was perfect. Her face was dominated by her eyes. Her face hinted strongly at intelligence and heat. Excellent combination.
~ Robert B. Parker
The car picked up speed, and the sound seemed to lull me.I could relax, I thought as I felt the tingling of circulation in my limbs. I was in Trent's car, wrapped in a blanket, and held in his arms. He wouldn't let anything hurt me. He wasn't singing, though,I mused.Shouldn't he be singing?
~ Kim Harrison
Basically, she's as retiring as I am arrogant—except when she's sword fighting. Mina is a mistress at arms.
~ Kresley Cole
These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace.
~ Ben Harper
The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.
~ John Boyd Orr
Like mercy from heaven's gate, there's a freedom in your arms that carries me through. I need you.
~ LeAnn Rimes
Her skin glowed in dawn's soft light sneaking in through curtains, and she stretched her arms up toward the ceiling in a move that elongated everything above her waist and below his belt.
~ Avery Flynn, Make Me Up
If they will not understand that we are bringing them a mathematically faultless happiness, our duty will be to force them to be happy. But before we take up arms, we shall try the power of words.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
he walked, he wrapped his arms around his thin frame for warmth and tried to find resignation. It's just rain. This is nothing important. I accept it. I'm at peace. But resignation was empty peace, with no real satisfaction. What else could he try? Reverence.
~ Deepak Chopra
One of them told me that the United States Constitution gave Chad Lowe the right to bear arms." Junior paused."I asked him if it gave me the same right. He stopped laughing then, told me to try it and see.
~ Delores Phillips
I believe every woman should have the right to live in a home free of deadly weapons.
~ Elizabeth Evatt
On this point you say: `But did the necessity exist in this case? The conscription act can not aid the Government in increasing its supply of arms or provisions, but can only enable it to call a larger number of men into the field. The difficulty has never been to get men. The States have already furnished the Government more than it can arm,' etc.
~ Jefferson Davis
The several States agree 'not to keep troops or ships of war in time of peace.' 194 They further stipulate that, 'a well-regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed
~ Jefferson Davis
The machinery thus secured was divided between the arsenals at Richmond, Virginia, and Fayetteville, North Carolina, and, when repaired and put in working condition, supplied to some extent the want which existed in the South of means for the alteration and repair of old or injured arms, and finally contributed to increase the very scanty supply of arms with which our country was furnished when the war
~ Jefferson Davis
Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.
~ Jello Biafra
From this vantage point in the summer, the countryside below is a dreaming checkerboard over which it seems that one could, with a running start, spread one's arms and fly.
~ Jenna Blum
I died on a bitter cold night. Beneath a black sky and a bruised winter moon, I tried to fly, hoping my arms might act as wings.
~ Jennifer Archer