Arm Quotes

#1. Once you start altering your body's blueprint, things start falling apart. Some players take steroids, and two years later, after they've broken records, suddenly they have back problems, shoulder problems, arm problems. They're out of the game for good.

Charlie Sheen

#2. PSA98.1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. PSA98.2 The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.

Anonymous

#3. I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting in an argument with myself, throwing myself off a cliff, patching myself up and brushing myself off with an arm around my shoulder.

Jim Cummings

#4. Blake and Livia were next to exit. He took the steps before she could and turned to offer her his hand, like a knight escorting his queen. Livia took Blake's hand and hugged his offered arm. Bea's photographer-nephew's flash blinded them as it captured their moment for all time.

Debra Anastasia

#5. Daniel stretched his arm around her and guided her head toward his shoulder. Little - known fact about angels: We make excellent pillows.

Lauren Kate

#6. He is a blind man and I am his book of braille. His breath against my collarbone raises goosebumps on my arm as I let him read my story.

Alanna Rusnak

#7. If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.

Ted Trueblood

#8. Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish I'd gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. Like the power to avoid situations that end with me willingly jamming my arm into a door made entirely from animate, apparently angry rose briars.

Seanan McGuire

#9. The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally evolved since then. You go in, sit down, they put a tourniquet on your arm, stick you with a needle, take these tubes and tubes of blood.

Elizabeth Holmes

#10. I have arm-wrestled here and there ... guys seem to want to test my strength.

Shania Twain

#11. The doubts ached in my bones like the deadening crawl of an icy night, and my gun trembled from my unsteady arm.

Katherine McIntyre

#12. We must go for a day in the country and when surrounded by the gay twittering of the birds and the smell of the cows I will lay my suit at her feet and he waved his arm wildly at the gay thought.

Daisy Ashford

#13. There is really nothing more unattractive than the sight of a young woman displaying a repulsive amount of arm.

Caroline Blackwood

#14. Tie Society, a start-up in Washington, D.C., stocks more than 300 designer ties - each of which, if bought, would cost an arm and a leg. For a monthly fee of $11, subscribers receive a box of sanitized ties to use, and they can change their tie selection monthly.

Jeremy Rifkin

#15. I do not need the strength of your arm to make a knight of you, Gavin. All I need is your heart, and that you have given,' the Prince said.

Chuck Black

#16. The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer ...

Walt Whitman

#17. I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.

Jonathan Swift

#18. When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west
that cloud field of the sky
to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.

Zora Neale Hurston

#19. Snorri stood with one thick arm gripping the wagon bed, arresting its motion. 'Come.'
I hadn't the breath to tell him that's what I was trying to do. Instead I slipped out, lacing up what needed to be laced.

Mark Lawrence

#20. Sitting on the arm of the couch Blake waved his hand. "Sure. Whatever. She's all yours."
Daemon grinned. "That she is.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#21. In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And it may be that this dreaded fear is the single thing that keeps us an arm's length from God, and forever a single step away from His blessings.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#22. If my arm trembles, it is because it has never been held by a pretty little hand like yours. I am a complete stranger to women; that is, I have never been used to them. You see, I am alone ... I don't even know how to talk to them.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#23. I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

Mark Twain

#24. I say, you look smashing this evening," Zayne strode over to her, took her arm, and began helping her up the walk, "That is a lovely gown, and what is the color of the hair you're currently sporting?

Jen Turano

#25. Margaretha suddenly plastered herself against his chest, burying her face in his shoulder and clinging to him with one hand, while she held the torch in her other hand away from them. He wrapped his arm around her, to protect her.

Melanie Dickerson

#26. Arm yourself with wisdom,
arm yourself with knowledge;
folly is a fierce lion roaming the streets.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. If a man has a weak arm, give him a heavy hammer to exceed himself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#28. One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

Camryn Manheim

#29. You're a pain in my ass!" he yelled, glaring at me. I couldn't stop smiling, and after a few seconds, Travis' mouth turned up. He shook his head again, and then hooked his arm around my neck. "You're making me crazy. You know that, right?

Jamie McGuire

#30. I don't hate you, Cyndi. You're blood. I have to love you. You just annoy the hell out of me. He put one
arm around her thin shoulders.

Jez Morrow

#31. Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.

W. Somerset Maugham

#32. You can put the girl in a relationship ... ," I began, putting my arm around her. "But you can't take the boy-crazy out of the girl," Cassie finished.

Jocelyn Davies

#33. He may be King Redrought Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield, Bear of the North, Defender of the Realm, Descendent of Thor, but to Thirrin he was just Dad, a man with a fondness for cats, a taste for comfy slippers and a huge laugh that could dent pewter at fifty paces.

Stuart Hill

#34. God have pity on the smell of gasoline
which finds its way like an arm
through a car window,
more human than kerosene,
more unctuous, more manly.

S. Jane Sloat

#35. We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.

Helen Fisher

#36. For the love of the gods, Lorenzo. Just kill the man."

I grinned even as a struggled to pull my arm free from his jaws. "Yes, dear.

Ellis Leigh

#37. hand of a soldier on my arm but I did not turn

Chris Cleave

#38. Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.

Jonathan Shapiro

#39. If planet Earth could get legal aid, then humanity would be facing the biggest malpractice suite in this spiral arm of our universe.

Steve Merrick

#40. Oh, so now you're abusing the crippled kid, huh?" Kenji takes a moment to steady himself before punching Adam in the arm. "Save your angst for the battlefield, bro. You're going to need it.

Tahereh Mafi

#41. His arm pulled her a little off balance, and paradoxically it steadied her at the same time. That was what Charles did to her heart, too. He knocked it off balance into what felt like the right position, a safe place that was still exciting, exhilarating, and terrifying.

Patricia Briggs

#42. Once a man is truly dead and carried pale and cold across the Styx--once Old Bones has put an arm about his shoulders and walked him through the Gate into Darkness--might Science yet summon him back?

Ian Weir

#43. You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

Nicolas Malebranche

#44. She was a Jew feeder without a question in the world on that man's first night in Molching. She was an arm reacher, deep into a mattress, to deliver a sketchbook to a teenage girl. (84.25)

Markus Zusak

#45. I do not know how long the arm of Mr Holbrooke or Mrs Albright is ... or whether that arm can reach me here.

Radovan Karadzic

#46. When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.

John Madden

#47. Think about my invitation. It's not a bad way to start off the year - on the arm of the most eligible bachelor in
school . . . See you tomorrow, Goldilocks." Trent winked and,
finally releasing my captive hand, walked away.

Anastasia Hopcus

#48. I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter.

Ronald Reagan

#49. There's a place on my arm where I've written her name next to mine.

Tom Waits

#50. He is omnipresent not only virtually but also substantially. ... In him all things are contained and move, but he does not act on them nor they on him. ... He is always and everywhere. ... He is all eye, all ear, all brain, all arm, all force of sensing, of understanding, and of acting.5

James Gleick

#51. I loved the preacher so much. I loved him because he loved Winn-Dixie. I loved him because he was going to forgive Winn-Dixie for being afraid. But most of all, I loved him for putting his arm around Winn-Dixie like that, like he was already trying to keep him safe.

Kate DiCamillo

#52. To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt - fatal.

Cassandra Clare

#53. What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#54. He loops his arm over my shoulder and we watch the waves in silence. We've had so many silences between us these last few months, bitter ones, loaded ones, empty ones, and hurtful ones. This one is perfect. It says things that words can't.

Lindsey Leavitt

#55. Any chance I'd get to see you in that bikini?"
Zahara punched him in the arm. "No more talk of me in anything remotely skimpy or I'm gonna drop-kick you, got it?" ~Zahara and Bryan

Annabell Cadiz

#56. A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.

Stanislaw Leszczynski

#57. Mulder stumbled, and Scully grabbed his arm to steady him. He smiled at her wanly. 'Isn't that what I'm supposed to do?'
'Since when did you ever think I was helpless, Mulder?'
Never, he thought; never.

Charles Grant

#58. He kissed me. And then he said it was a mistake."
Serena wrapped an arm around my shoulders. "Normally, I'd quote that copy of He's Just Not That Into You I picked up at a yard sale but-

Kathleen Peacock

#59. Angel?" he whispered in the dark. "Yes?" "What does it feel like to love someone?" A lump caught in my throat and I lightly ran my fingers down his bare arm. "It feels like this." "That's what I thought." -Erin McCarthy/The Coming Dark

Erin McCarthy

#60. But Jackal gave a low, humorless chuckle. 'Oh you bastard.' He smiled, shaking his head and staring up at the barn. 'That's cute. Let's see if you're as funny when I'm beating you to death with your own arm.

Julie Kagawa

#61. And Alison's leaning gently on my arm, her wild bouquet of orchid-red curls tickling into my neck.

Ben H. Winters

#62. You're very beautiful, dear', she said, 'what nationality are you, Indian?'
'No', I smiled, 'I'm Aboriginal.'
She looked at me in shock. 'You can't be,' she said.
'I am.'
'Oh, you poor thing,' she said, putting her arm around me, 'what on earth are you going to do?

Sally Morgan

#63. Whoever is unable to stand up for an ideal with his person, his arm, his blood, is unworthy of that ideal, and no matter how intellectual one may become, what matters is that one remains a man.

Thomas Mann

#64. The time has come to arm-wrestle some demons.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#65. 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

#66. She once told me how she could feel the missing part of her arm- how she sometimes experienced the sensation of a hand- that it is possible to feel something without its physical presence.
Perhaps love is like this and we are all limbs of one giant intangible body.

Simon Van Booy

#67. Cathrine pretty today. I nod, yes it's a very pretty day. Jason touches my arm. Cathrine pretty.

Cynthia Lord

#68. Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!

Pierre-Jean De Beranger

#69. If you're lookin' for a helpin' hand, try the one at the end of your arm.

Kinky Friedman

#70. Michael!" Oliver's voice came faint through the front door. "Something you should see, my boy! Look out your windows!"
"Trap," Shane said instantly, and reached out to grab Michael's arm as he walked by. "Don't, man."
"What's he going to do? Make faces at me?

Rachel Caine

#71. Perhaps you could find a way to prudently follow your instincts?"
Morrigan put her arm around Birkita and squeezed. "I'm eighteen. Nothing I do is prudent."
Birkita sighed. "That is what worries me.

P.C. Cast

#72. Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.

Marya Hornbacher

#73. There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.

Samuel Shem

#74. I've always been the type of person - you know, I kind of am extreme. So you know, I'm not, like, oh, let me get one tattoo. It's, like, my old whole arm has to be covered.

LeCrae

#75. Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.

Jason Reitman

#76. We have a name," said Jace. "Magnes B-"
"Shut up." Alec hissed, thwacking Jace with his closed menu. Jace looked injured.
"Jesus," he rubbed his arm. "What's your problem?

Cassandra Clare

#77. You're not a lumberjack trying to hack down a tree. You're a dancer, and the sword is an extension of your arm. Move with the blade and keep your eyes on your enemy's upper body, not their weapon.

Julie Kagawa

#78. The ceiling angled down right over me and I raised my arm and touched it with my fingertips. All children, I thought, should be permitted to sleep in such a room; the child loves nooks and odd angles and is frightened into nightmare by equidistance, by parallel planes which conceal nothing.

Don DeLillo

#79. We lay on our sides, like spoons nesting in a drawer. My arm ended up under her head, like a pillow. She curled snugly along the inside of my body, so easy and natural, as if she had been designed to fit there. - Kvothe - The Name Of The Wind - pg 629

Patrick Rothfuss

#80. My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.

Haruki Murakami

#81. Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a French tennis pro. The message was very clear. Put passion first and you end up neither loved nor respected.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#82. When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.

Fred Rogers

#83. I'm glad I have you for my boyfriend." "Me too," I said. "Sometimes I have to pinch myself." She pinched my arm and smiled. "You're so cute.

Richard Paul Evans

#84. We need to put no confidence in the arm of flesh, but rather trust ourselves entirely to the arm of the Lord.

Joyce Meyer

#85. One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.

Arnold Bennett

#86. Wrapping his arm around Kai, pulling the man he loved close to him, all Jeremy could think was... it's worth it.

Melanie Hansen

#87. Isn't it terrifying how instinctively the arm settles into the aiming of a gun? You've even put your finger on the lever marked Rock'n'roll, and that means you're 1% of the way along the road towards putting me down, shooter. The other 99% is just pulling the trigger.

Mark Crutchfield

#88. Walking away from my desert companions feels like cutting off a limb. How does one say good-bye to an arm? One doesn't, I suppose. One pretends it isn't happening.

Rae Carson

#89. If you ever need to confirm that a girl is worth coming back from Hell for, show her your monster arm and see what she says.

Richard Kadrey

#90. As we rode along LaBoeuf commenced whistling tunes, perhaps to take his mind off his sore arm. Rooster said, "God damn a man that whistles!" It was the wrong thing to say if he wished it to stop.

Charles Portis

#91. A reporter from 'The Times' wanted to arm-wrestle, and as I recall, he kept challenging me. So we went at it, and there was a pop. His arm broke. Very strange. He went into a kind of swoon.

Charles Portis

#92. How can you know when you are trusting in man rather than in God? If you fall apart when someone else lets you down, or if the actions of others affect your walk with God, then you know you are leaning on the arm of flesh!

David Wilkerson

#93. Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm
into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.

Stephenie Meyer

#94. The more specific you are about your resolution, the better your chance of sticking with it. Don't just say, "I want to lose weight." Say, "When my arm jiggles, I want it to look less like a pelican's throat-pouch choking down a bass.

Colin Nissan

#95. You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

Barbara Bush

#96. Even through her coat, he could feel the curve of her arm, making him aware of their differences.
Man and woman.
Hard and soft.

Debra Holland

#97. The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.

Soren Kierkegaard

#98. Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well.

Bethany Hamilton

#99. 'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

Benjamin Millepied

#100. But if you're not knowledgeable in God's Word, you have nothing to fight with, and the only way to arm yourself against evil and the adversary is to know His Word and use it!

K.J. Masters