Quotes Tagged "arms"

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

My arms are too short to box with God.

For it is up to you and me to take solace in nostalgia's arms and our ability to create the everlasting from fleeting moments.

i want to stay curled and cosied and chocolated....forever in my mother’s arms.

They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our doors and hide our children. Their aim is to make us fear life itself! They want us to hate. They want us to hate 'the other'. They want us to practice aggression and perfect antagonism. Their aim is to divide us all! They want us to be inhuman. They want us to throw out our kindness. They want us to bury our love and burn our hope. Their aim is to take all our light! They think their bricked walls will separate us. They think their damned bombs will defeat us. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that my soul and your soul are old friends. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that when they cut you I bleed. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that we will never be afraid, we will never hate and we will never be silent for life is ours!

I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain. I tell her, “Get a pen. Stop crying so you can write this down and start working on it tonight.” My remedy is long. But the last item on the list says: “When you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town – to pack up and go (you can even go tonight). And where you need to go is any place where there are arms that can hold you, that will not let you go.

Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her social programmes.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

I'm not an expert on the arms race.

Definitely, I am not advocating an arms race.

I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.

A ban on a class of arms is not an 'incidental' regulation. It is equivalent to a ban on a category of speech.

I supported the efforts in Honduras to stop the flow of arms from Nicaragua across to El Salvador.

One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

The legs and arms can be a revelation of the back, the spine's extensions.

I was never involved in arms trading. In the Russian Federation, arms trading is the prerogative of the state.

Free men have arms; slaves do not.

Fury itself supplies arms.