Arms famous quotes

With Woods arms wrapped around me and the beat of his heart pressed against my chest, I knew he would hold me steady. If I ever fell, I’d have him to catch me.
-- Abbi Glines

#Heart #Arms #Woods

If I’d known Ashton wanted my attention at any point I would have pushed Nicole aside and given her my undivided attention. But most of the time she was wrapped in Sawyer’s arms and I needed the distraction Nicole provided.
-- Abbi Glines

#Attention #Arms #Distraction

I'm not an expert on the arms race.
-- Abdul Kalam

#Race #Experts #Arms

Where you go, I go, What you see, I see, I know I'd never be me without the security, Are your loving arms keeping me from harm Put your hands in my hand & we'll stand.
-- Adele

#Song #Hands #Arms

When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.
-- Adolf Galland

#Thinking #Giving #Arms

It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by hopes in any League of Nations, but only by the force of arms.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Land #League #Arms

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Mistake #People #Arms

Fear is stronger than arms.
-- Aeschylus

#Fear #Stronger #Arms

A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.
-- Akbar

#Arms #Should #Conquest

Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.
-- Al Gore

#Veins #Arms #Toes

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
-- Alan Cumming

#Blood #Battle #Arms

One time a French reporter asked me how I could do a cross so easily. I said, "You just lower your body down until your arms are straight out to the sides, then you stop."
-- Albert Azaryan

#Gymnastics #Body #Arms

What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth?
-- Albert Camus

#Men #Heaven #Arms

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.
-- Aldrich Ames

#Knowing #Arms #Might

Playboy stretched his arm, patting Carlos on the back. "Well, you know what they say: If you love someone, let'em go. If they don't come back, hunt'em down and kill'em!
-- Alex Sanchez

#Ems #If You Love Someone #Arms

. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Branches #May #Arms

Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
-- Alice Hoffman

#Fall #Love Is #Arms

He was beside me then, his arms wrapped around me, holding me tightly. "I'm not crazy," I whispered. "I know." Believe it or not, that's the most romantic thing Zachary Goode ever told me. And I kind of loved him for it.
-- Ally Carter

#Crazy #Believe #Arms

Listen to me." He grabbed my arms, holding me there. " I couldn't find you. And I will never forgive myself for that. Ever.
-- Ally Carter

#Girl #Forgiving #Arms

Yes, of course. But ... how?" Kat felt her crew around her: Hamish's arm hung around Simon's shoulders; Gabrielle's delicate hands draped through the arms of Angus and Nick. Kat's own hand found Hale's, then, fingers interlacing, palms pressing together so tightly that Kat knew nothing could come between them. Nothing. She looked at him. No one. "It's easy," Kat said, "when you don't have to do it alone.
-- Ally Carter

#Hands #Together #Arms

Hamish's right arm was around Angus's waist as the two of them tangoed past.
-- Ally Carter

#Past #Two #Arms

She didn't protest as Hale slid his arm around her and pulled her to rest against his chest. It was somehow softer there than she remembered.
-- Ally Carter

#Arms #Hale #Protest

HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Hands #Pockets #Arms

Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.
-- Amy Bloom

#People #Arms #Matter

I've always felt that any establishment that doesn't welcome me with open arms doesn't deserve my patronage.
-- Amy Plum

#Arms #Welcome #Patronage

My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.
-- Andrea Fay Friedman

#Mother #Son #Arms

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
-- Andrei Platonov

#Soldier #Want #Arms

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.
-- Andrew Jackson

#Humble #Law #Arms

We''d like to be welcomed with open arms and open legs
-- Andy Biersack

#Legs #Arms

I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny wooden teddy bears with their arms hacked off.
-- Anjelica Huston

#Thinking #Needs #Arms

We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony; sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Block #Legs #Arms

I sighed. 'It's hard. You're the only one who listens to what I have to say.' Longshot dropped a gentle, comforting arm around my shoulders. 'Then speak louder, girl. Don't let them put out your spark.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Girl #Comforting #Arms

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
-- Anne Bronte

#Hero #Arms #Foe

As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.
-- Anne Rice

#Night #Shadow #Arms

You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.
-- Annie Dillard

#Arms #Tests #Ran

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
-- Anthony de Mello

#Arms #Welcome

The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals.
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Coats #Arms #Individual

I liked her…I really liked her. I wanted to protect her. I approached her in a gentle, playful manner, because she's so precious and I wanted to hold her in my arms because she's so carefree. She was my treasure.
-- Arina Tanemura

#Treasure #Arms #Carefree

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.
-- Aristotle

#Gun #Citizens #Arms

The thing I probably love the most is driving out with the championship trophy under my arm.
-- Arnold Palmer

#Arms #Trophies #Driving

As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Opportunity #America #Arms

As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Rocks #Water #Arms

I hereby arm myself for today with coffee and the willingness to be wrong.
-- Audrey Assad

#Coffee #Arms #Today

Ricorda, se hai bisogno di una mano la troverai alla fine del tuo braccio. Remember, if you need a hand you'll find it at the end of your arm.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Hands #Needs #Arms

Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.
-- Augusten Burroughs

#Tissues #Legs #Arms

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
-- Barbara Bush

#Strong #Kids #Arms

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.
-- Barbara Hambly

#Arms #Oneself #Intimidated

If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.
-- Barbara Mertz

#Government #Drug #Arms

Lukic saved with his foot, which is all part of the goalkeeper's arm.
-- Barry Davies

#Soccer #Feet #Arms

My arms hurt from how tightly Patch held me. “Now that’s what I call a scream,” he said, grinning at me.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Hurt #Arms #Scream

I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.
-- Ben Kingsley

#Arms #Villain #Embrace

It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.
-- Bernard Arnault

#Style #Arms #Certain

I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.
-- Bernard Arnault

#Arms #Take Time

I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.
-- Bernie Mac

#Needs #Arms #Break

Put your arm around the buddy next to you. And if you don't have any friends, I'll be your best friend in the whole world.
-- Bert McCracken

#World #Arms #Next

I wouldn't change what happened to me because then I wouldn't have this chance, in front of all of you, to embrace more people than I ever could have with two arms.
-- Bethany Hamilton

#Two #People #Arms

I could never have embraced this many people with two arms.
-- Bethany Hamilton

#Two #People #Arms

Losing an arm is kinda lame at one point, but at the same time, so much good has come out of it.
-- Bethany Hamilton

#Lame #Arms #Losing

A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him.
-- Billy Collins

#Wind #Arms #Faces

I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
-- Billy Connolly

#People #Singing #Arms

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.
-- Billy Corgan

#Fun #Years #Arms

My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him.
-- Billy Graham

#Prayer #Heart #Arms

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Tired #May #Arms

What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names.
-- Bo Burnham

#Kids #Names #Arms

Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you
-- Bob Dylan

#Arms #Ruins #Use

In addition, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides protection for those in the firearms industry from lawsuits arising out of the criminal or unlawful acts of people who misuse their products.
-- Bob Ney

#People #Arms #Criminals

I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist.
-- Bobby Robson

#Music #Arms #Given

It seems to me that the Iraqis laid down a lot of the arms that we gave to them. So that doesn't seem to be the solution.
-- Brad Wenstrup

#Military #Iraq #Arms

Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armèd men the hum; Lo, a nation's hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum Saying, Come, Freemen, Come! Ere your heritage be wasted, Said the quick alarming drum.
-- Bret Harte

#Men #Heritage #Arms

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.
-- Bruce McCulloch

#Baseball #Thinking #Arms

Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they're still going to blow out. Pitching is hard on the arm.
-- Bruce Sutter

#Blow #Arms #Pitching

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Men #Needs #Arms

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Rebel #Arms #Imperfect

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
-- Camryn Manheim

#Memories #Father #Arms

Everything is fine and bright. Day must follow every night. My power keeps me safe from harm. The Goddess holds me in her arms.
-- Cate Tiernan

#Night #Safe #Arms

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
-- Charles Lindbergh

#Self Improvement #Important #Arms

If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Prayer #Body #Arms

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.
-- Charles Stanley

#Prayer #Want #Arms

Touch my children and I will eat your hands off your freakin arms.
-- Charlie Sheen

#Children #Hands #Arms

The awful thing about being fat is you can't get away from it. Everywhere you go, there it is; all round you; hanging and swinging, yards and yards of it, under your arms, everywhere. And everyone else is so thin.
-- Charlotte Bingham

#Yards #Weight #Arms

There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.
-- Charlotte Bronte

#Sorrow #Vision #Arms

Lean back into the arms of grace.
-- Cheryl Richardson

#Grace #Arms

The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your arm’s length.
-- Christophe Agou

#Distance #Arms #Length

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
-- Christopher Columbus

#Men #People #Arms

If he even survives." She shivered, and Amon put his arm around her, drawing her into his steady warmth. "It's that bad?" Raisa nodded. "He looked...he looked awful, Amon. Willo doesn't know if he'll...She's worried about him. My mother died, and I never got to tell her that I loved her, that I finally understood - just a little anyway. If Han dies too, I don't know what I'll do.
-- Cinda Williams Chima

#Mother #Drawing #Arms

She had never felt more alive than when she lay dying in Han Alister's arms.
-- Cinda Williams Chima

#Dying #Alive #Arms

He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only
-- Cinda Williams Chima

#Arms #Lasts #Firsts

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.
-- Clara Barton

#Cutting #Arms #Balls

When you step in the ring, your arms are just too short to box with God
-- CM Punk

#Arms #Steps #Too Short

One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.
-- Colin Baker

#Mean #Laughing #Arms

Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.
-- Cormac McCarthy

#Son #Papa #Arms

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.
-- Craig Charles

#Trying #Arms #Dustbin

Not one woman over seventeen has any faith in her skin tone, and no woman over thirty can ever regard her upper arms with equanimity.
-- Cynthia Heimel

#Skins #Body #Arms

The media is the right arm of anarchy.
-- Dan Brown

#Media #Arms #Anarchy

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.
-- Dan Savage

#Triumph #Doe #Arms

You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.
-- Daniel H. Wilson

#Robots #Want #Arms

I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child.
-- Daphne du Maurier

#Children #Arms

Masturbation is good for the right arm.
-- Daron Malakian

#Arms #Masturbation

Masturbation is great for the right arm
-- Daron Malakian

#Arms #Masturbation

The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently.
-- Dave Eggers

#Air #Getting Older #Arms