Arms And Legs Quotes

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Courage

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspirational, Dance, Dancing

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”

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• Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.

  William Shatner

  Baby, Eye, Body

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• Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

  Mel Brooks

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Eye, Men, Two

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• Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.22

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  If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

  Nick Vujicic

  Heart, Men, Hands

  FaceBook post by Nick Vujicic from Jul 11, 2016

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• Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hurt, Believe, Past

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• I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Two, Legs

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• The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Men, Swag, Circles

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• Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

  Jim Henson

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Design, Lazy

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• In this particular tub, two knees jut up like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise on arms and legs in a fringe of kelp; green soap navigates the tidal slosh of seas breaking on legendary beaches; in faith we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.

  Sylvia Plath

  Beach, Stars, Real

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• There was movement along the fringe of Chauncey's vision, and he snapped his head to the left. At first glance what appeared to be a large angel topping a nearby monument rose to full height. Neither stone nor marble, the boy had arms and legs. His torso was naked, his feet were bare, and peasant trousers hung low on his waist. He hopped down from the monument, the ends of his hair dripping rain. It slid down his face, which was dark as a Spaniard's.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Rain, Angel, Dark

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Sharks attack surfers because they look like a seal. Apparently, when you're layng on your board and you have your arms and legs hanging off, from underneath you look like a seal. So I just got a picture of a seal and put a red line through it and put it underneath my board.

  Henry Cho

  Sharks, Red, Boards

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• 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

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Enclave”, p.194, Macmillan

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• The man in the shop peered disapprovingly at Evie through the glass. She pumped her arms and legs up and down in imitation of a marching band, gave the man a salute, and continued her meandering walk to the museum.

  Libba Bray

  Men, Museums, Glasses

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• My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover's croon, Come to me, come, only I can make you truly happy, oh, how happy I'll make you, don't resist, remember how you moan with pleasure the instant we touch..... Laura Acosta

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Eye, Mirrors, Bed

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2011). “Fatigue Artist”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Head held high and lips parted, she breathed in the music, sending it through her torso and arms and legs the way the Tai Chi teacher told us to breath the air, transforming it into energy, motion. Dancing is the body's song, and Bess sang.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Song, Teacher, Air

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2011). “Fatigue Artist”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• glancing back I got my first clear look at the monster. He was seven feet tall, easy, his arms and legs like something from the cover of Muscle Man magazine-bulging biceps and triceps and a bunch of other 'ceps, all stuffed like baseballs under vein-webbed skin. He wore no clothes except underwear-I mean, bright white fruit of the Looms.

  Rick Riordan

  Baseball, Mean, Men

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• Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And it’s a terrible thing. I’m broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Broken, Wish

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• It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling out loud like the schoolgirl Deb had accused me of being. Because he had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO. The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile. What a scamp.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Cute, Halloween, Circles

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.170, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• And I'll have you know that if you hurt my son again, if he so much as sighs sadly over his coffee, I will hire a man, a Russian, probably, to hunt you down and rip all that shiny black hair from your head, then break your skinny arms and legs, and set you on fire, and then put you out with a hammer. And should there be children from your beastly rutting, I shall have the Russian man cut them to tiny pieces and feed them to Madame Jacob's dog. because, although he may be only a worthless, simpleminded, libertine artist, Lucien is my favorite, and I will not have him hurt. Do you understand?

  Christopher Moore

  Dog, Hurt, Children

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• How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood.

  Louise Erdrich

  Past, Clouds, Blood

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.218, Odyssey Editions

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• She closed her eyes and jumped. For a moment she felt herself hang suspended, free of everything. Then gravity took over, and she plunged toward the floor. Instinctively she pulled her arms and legs in, keeping her eyes squeezed shut. The cord pulled taut and she rebounded, flying back up before falling again. As her velocity slowed, she opened her eyes and found herself dangling at the end of the cord, about five feet above Jace. He was grinning. 'Nice', he said. 'As graceful as a falling snowflake.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Fall, Eye

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.1259, Simon and Schuster

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