Arms Quotes - Page 33

• If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.

  Simon Van Booy

  Rain, Airports, Sight

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.50, Oneworld Publications

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• We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of each other's stones.

  Simon Van Booy

  Memories, Rivers, Skins

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.297, Oneworld Publications

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• Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Angel, Giving, Perfection

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• God is not pleased by blood – and not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death.

  Manuel II Palaiologos

  Strong, Mean, Blood

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• Oregon welcomed me like a beloved child, enfolded me in her cool arms, shushed my turbulent thoughts, and promised peace through her whispering pines.

  Colleen Houck

  Children, Oregon, Whispering

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• In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Animal, Two, Mistress

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.244, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

  Ovid

  Sight, Sea, Land

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• A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

  Laozi

  Journey, Men, Feet

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• Our world is... longing to see people whose God is big and holy and frightening and gentle and tender... and ours; a God whose love frightens us into His strong and powerful arms where He longs to whisper those terrifying words, 'I love you.'

  Mike Yaconelli

  Strong, Powerful, Love You

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• There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.

  Diana Nyad

  Two, Knowing, Water

  FaceBook post by Diana Nyad from Jan 14, 2014

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• What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names.

  Bo Burnham

  Kids, Names

  Song: Traditional Stand-Up, Album: Words Words Words, 2010

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• It's nice to see some youth running around and not see achy backs and necks and arms, ... It's nice to see some young guys feeling spry.

  Trevor Hoffman

  Running, Nice, Guy

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• I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Differences, Civilization, People

  Chester A. Arthur's second annual message to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, December 4, 1882.

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• I loved dancing the tango at the 1994 Nurses Ball Talent Show. I thought I'd be dancing with Brad Maule (Tony) but the writers revved up the passion by pairing me with Leigh McCloskey, my lover Damian. During dress rehearsal, for a goof, Leigh and Brad ran into each others arms instead!

  Jacklyn Zeman

  Passion, Nurse, Dancing

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• May your love be firm, and may your dream of life together be a river between two shores - by day bathed in sunlight, and by night illuminated from within. May the heron carry news of you to the heavens, and the salmon bring the sea's blue grace. May your twin thoughts spiral upward like leafy vines, like fiddle strings in the wind, and be as noble as the Douglas fir. May you never find yourselves back to back without love pulling you around into each other's arms.

  James Bertolino

  Dream, Night, Love Is

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• Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God, there is good news. Jesus waits to embrace you now in the arms of unconditional, divine love.

  Charles Stanley

  Jesus, Broken, Waiting

  Charles F. Stanley (2001). “A Gift of Love: Reflections for the Tender Heart”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them within the clasp of our arms.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Children, Listening, Trying

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• Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Defeat, Dictator

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.16, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest.

  Thomas Paine

  Lasts, Conservative, Debate

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.33

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• It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Prayer, Voice

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• He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and, if he is tolerably popular, will, in one successful season, have paved the way for the business of life, for he has enough to do, ever afterward, to stop the mercurial breach of the constitutions of his dilapidated patients. He has thrown himself in fearful proximity to death, and has now to fight him at arm's length as long as the patient maintains a miserable existence.

  Nathaniel Chapman

  Fighting, Fate, Successful

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• I have 2 weapons; my arms, my legs and my brain.

  Michael Vick

  Funny, Football, Nfl

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• My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

  Saffron Aldridge

  Mother, Morning, Life Is Too Short

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• The arms are fair, When the intent of bearing them is just.

  William Shakespeare

  Fairness, Fairs

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Henry IV”, p.112, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In 1823, William Webb Ellis first picked up the ball in his arms and ran with it. And for the next 156 years forwards have been trying to work out why.

  Tasker Watkins

  Years, Work Out, Trying

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