Arms Quotes - Page 24

• We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves. We know that more then 98 percent of our genes are shared with the chimpanzee, but we feel the kinship directly when the furry baby puts up its arms to be held.

  Alison Jolly

  Baby, Reflection, Laughing

  Alison Jolly (2001). “Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, Queens, Fall

  "The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (Volume II)". Book by Winston Churchill, 1899.

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• He's the type of man who will end up dying in his own arms.

  Mamie Van Doren

  Men, Personality, Dying

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• Wherever a people have grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing it is religion.

  Georgie Henley

  Powerful, War, Mean

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• Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type of warfare. You need to master only the simplest military skills and possess enormous quantities of arms and munitions.

  Jim Dunnigan

  Military, War, Enormous Quantities

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• Pouring arms into the spreading cauldron of war risks exacerbating the crisis in Iraq. A fully inclusive international diplomatic process should be attempted and is urgently needed now, before the fires of war and militancy spread further in the region.

  David Cortright

  Military, War, Fire

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• 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, Solutions

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• As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity.

  Richard Page

  Lying, Moving, Hunting

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• Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

  Victor Hugo

  Opportunity, Heaven, Half

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• Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said, "I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember." My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. "Yes sir?" I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.

  Harpo Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

  "Harpo Speaks!".

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• I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him.

  Dawn Powell

  Kissing, Night, Hands

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.

  Baroness Orczy

  Love, Men, Thinking

  Baroness Orczy (2011). “I Will Repay”, p.66, House of Stratus

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• These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.

  John Milton

  Love, Two, Eden

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 505

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• You being in my arms, heart by heart feels like our love would never end.

  Valentin Gonzalez

  Love, Heart, Ends

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• One line on the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines. They'll be the hardest farewells I'll have to make in my life and they're the luckiest fortune I've met in my lifetime.

  Choi Yoon-young

  Drama, Farewell, Heart

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• Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Women, Fall

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• If cleanliness is next to godliness, surely our cats must go to heaven and sit on the arm of God's throne.

  Jerry Climer

  Cat, Heaven, Thrones

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• For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold out if it be assaulted by the like danger.... so those who are besieged and assaulted by their spiritual enemies will ever after more carefully arm themselves against them with the graces of God's Spirit, that they may not be overcome nor foiled by them.

  George Downame

  Spiritual, Strong, Prayer

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• When shall it be that we shall taste the sweetness of the Divine Will in all that happens to us, considering in everything only His good pleasure, by whom it is certain that adversity is sent with as much love as prosperity, and as much for our good? When shall we cast ourselves undeservedly into the arms of our most loving Father in Heaven, leaving to Him the care of ourselves and of our affairs, and reserving only the desire of pleasing Him, and of serving Him well in all that we can?

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Father, Adversity, Heaven

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• My dear father! When I remember him, it is always with his arms open wide to love and comfort me.

  Isobel Osbourne Field

  Father, Comfort, Remember

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• My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly
  Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me

  K'naan

  Rap, Trouble, Hold Me

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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.

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• There were also the razor marks on her wrists and forearms, half a dozen per arm, not very deep, not very convincing really, just a lame, hapless attempt at hurting herself. There hadn't even been that much blood and nobody at the hospital had been at all surprised. These scars, for some reason, he didn't mind. Maybe they even appealed to him. They showed that she was weak and in need of him.

  Geoff Nicholson

  Hurt, Blood, Mind

  Geoff Nicholson (1998). “Bleeding London”, p.62, The Overlook Press

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• ... the American Colonists under King George III had it pretty good compared to us. They would wonder why we haven't taken up arms and seceded yet.

  Lewis Goldberg

  Kings, Taken, Liberty

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• Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed to thinking of it as unique and as ultimate.

  Henry Margenau

  Science, Unique, Thinking

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