Arms Quotes
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Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.
Homer
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The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.
William Goldman
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In ancient times men fought with their right arms and defended with their left arms... ...the right side of the body was considered masculine and the left side feminine.
Manly Hall
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I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
Ernest Hemingway
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But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her,barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my windowin one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor.She will look in at me with her thin arms extended,offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.
William Collins
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At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Free men have arms; slaves do not.
William Blackstone
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Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.
Aristotle
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If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.
Willem de Kooning
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When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.
John Lennon The Beatles
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If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.
William Shakespeare
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I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.
Toussaint Louverture
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All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom I had courted, all who had clung to me with longing, all whom I had followed with enraptured eyes were melted together and had become one, the one whom I held in my arms.
Hermann Hesse
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There's no messiahs out here, baby, but I found the holy grail alright. Cause I'm lying in your arms tonight.
Marc Cohn
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One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.
William Lewis Safir
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Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
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I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.
Charles Dickens
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In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?
Lord Byron
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I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?
Charlotte Bronte
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The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians in their isolation, the most selfish and ungrateful in their cocoons, the most unjust of employers and the most overweening of snobs. The love of Christ embraces all without exception.
Brennan Manning
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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
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But in my arms she was always Lolita.
Vladimir Nabokov