Keep Me At Arm's Length Quotes

#1. Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting
For fear of little men.

William Allingham

#2. I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.

Sarah Dessen

#3. I very specifically told you to stay away from Ned Blydon."
"I chose not to follow your advice. Ned is a very nice person. Handsome, personable - a perfect escort."
"That is precisely why I wanted you to keep him at arm's length.

Julia Quinn

#4. Children need their parents' time and attention. Giving one's time is part of the work of love. It means being there for the child, attending to the child's needs rather than the parent's needs.

John Bradshaw

#5. I think the [fan] access is complicated, because it brings wonderful things into my life, and it brings really negative things into my life. I just try to keep the negative stuff at arm's length. Laugh at it and walk away.

Kathleen Hanna

#6. Irony has always seemed the best approach to life, the best way to keep it at arm's length.

Lawrence Thornton

#7. Proud people keep others at arm's length. Broken people are willing to take the risks of getting close to others and loving intimately.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#8. When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.

Ty Burrell

#10. Dear Marco, how do i unwrite the past, how do i undo the mistakes, how do i unlove you?

Toni Gonzaga

#11. 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

#12. When men make gods, there is no God!

Eugene O'Neill

#13. But sometimes, like tonight, she feels plugged in to the raw emotion of it all, a closed circuit, and if she doesn't keep it at arm's length, it still has the power to break her.

Blake Crouch

#14. Keep people at arm's length and your feelings to yourself.

Morgan Matson

#15. Keep things at arm's length ... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Erich Maria Remarque

#16. A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!

Charles Lamb

#17. I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.

Brian May

#18. He came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.

Patrick Suskind

#19. If you face life with the sincere faith that through the aid of the Almighty you can overcome your troubles, then you will keep defeat at arm's length. And this applies in all the circumstances life can bring.

Norman Vincent Peale