Arms Quotes

• 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
  • Loved
  • Misery
  • Paradises

• What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Soldiers
  • Movements
  • Mob

• Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Strong
  • Justice
  • Gold

• Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Arms
  • Warfare
  • Ornaments

• How can you go on stage and shout 'Yeah! Rock'n'roll forever!' and then go to bed at 10 o'clock with a nightcap on, a candle in your hand and a Bible under your arm?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Forever
  • Bed
  • Clock

• And for an instant, I fantasized about wrapping my arms around her right then and there.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Arms
  • Wrapping
  • Fantasized

• I got kicked out of Riverdance for using my arms.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Arms
  • Kicked Out
  • Riverdance

• Russia doesn't want any arms race. Russia would not engage in the arms race. We have enough technological means to provide not very expensive answer to the efforts to build missile defense.

  

  Sergey Lavrov
  • Arms
  • Russia
  • Technological

• 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
  • Fall
  • Arms
  • Conclusion

• This thought was interrupted, suddenly, by a crash from the front entrance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam bending back from the glass, rubbing his arm. "Pull open," Maggie called out. As Leah rolled her eyes, she said, "He never remembers. It's so weird.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Remember
  • Eye
  • Crash

• Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Farewell
  • Discouraged

• It was like reaching for someone's hand, then missing their fingers, or even their arm, and hitting their shoulder instead. But no matter. You hang on tight anyway.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Hands
  • Missing
  • Fingers

• You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Men
  • Gun
  • Execution

• I would not think to touch the sky with two arms

  

  Sappho
  • Thinking
  • Sky
  • Arms

• I grew up having to piss in a bucket ’cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things that have heated seats and wash and blow-dry your arse at the touch of a button. Give it a couple of years and I’ll have a bog with a robot arm that pulls out my turds, so I don’t have to strain.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Giving
  • Couple
  • Blow

• Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don't go into yours, you don't go into mine. You gotta hold the frame.

  

  Eleanor Bergstein
  • Dance
  • Arms
  • Hold

• You don't have to say it out loud. I already know why you like me.' 'You do, huh?' 'Yep.' He wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me closer. 'So,' I said. 'Tell me' 'It's an animal attraction,' he said simply. 'Totally chemical.' 'Hmm,' I said. 'You could be right.' 'It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me.' 'No?' 'Nope.' His hands were in my hair now, and I was leaning in, not able to totally make out his face, but his voice was clear, close to my ear. 'Just that you do.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Animal
  • Able
  • Attraction

• For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

  

  Sarah Bernhardt
  • Artist
  • Theatre
  • Gesture

• Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes." Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you." "Do you promise?""Yes.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Fighting
  • Promise
  • Said

• I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Fall
  • Morning
  • Laughing

• Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Justice
  • Conscience
  • Injustice

• Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Drug
  • Arms
  • Holding

• Once we played at the Fillmore opposite The Cream. Eric Clapton was there and he played his ass off that night ... backstage Michael Bloomfield introduced me to Eric, and Eric was so nice. He came up to me, put his arms around me and said "Barry, it's such a pleasure to meet you" ... I couldn't figure it out... then Michael told me that he had told Eric I had cancer and two months to live...

  

  Barry Goldberg
  • Music
  • Cancer
  • Cream

• The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Arms
  • Sailing
  • Knees

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