Arms Quotes - Page 21

Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world.

When I see a train, I want to take it in my arms.

Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help.

Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!

The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed full mobilization of the potential economic surplus and the attainment of rates of economic advancement that can be secured with its help.

I don`t set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.

The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms.

...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)

There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other 11?

I really forget that I have no arms or legs sometimes.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

Information is shock resistance. Arm yourself.

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

I got an ant farm; them fellas didn't grow sh*t.

Always a good clue when you see a quarterback's arm go forward and forward and the hand empty, it's an incomplete pass.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.

The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful and ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.

Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.

Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there’s something dead about it, something deserted.

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.