Quotes About Arms

#1. He held her gaze as he lowered his head toward her. He didn't kiss her though
just leaned kissably close and asked, Will you let me take you in my arms ... for a dance, Leslie?

Melissa Marr

#2. His arms surrounded me, pulling me close, holding me as if I was infinitely precious. I burned and trembled in his embrace.

Julianne Donaldson

#3. From this vantage point in the summer, the countryside below is a dreaming checkerboard over which it seems that one could, with a running start, spread one's arms and fly.

Jenna Blum

#4. I've come for one of your lasses," Sinclair said again. "A maid - she must be a virgin."
Donal folded his arms over his chest. "What for? Pagan sacrifice?

Lecia Cornwall

#5. When I write...
I am in the fond arms
of a childhood friend
upon whose colorful heart I can hang
the charcoal drawings
of my woes.

Sanober Khan

#6. Whatever game you're playing, you're going to lose," he whispers. "And I'll be right there to rub your nose in it when it happens."
"Great. Well, at least I have something to look forward to." I cross my arms. "Now why don't you go parade your lack of dignity somewhere else?

Rachel Morgan

#7. When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

Jesse Ventura

#8. Princess," he said, spreading his arms in a shrug, "how does such a little thing like you get such a big temper?"
I held up my hand to shield my eyes from the sun.
"Marc Antony," I said, "how does such a big man like you have such a little brain?

Kristiana Gregory

#9. How lucky my life is that I have two arms, and two legs, and ten fingers with which to make things out of wood.

Nick Offerman

#10. What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

Ovid

#11. Hurry, aye, but hurry where?" Amos halted midstride and spread his arms wide to encapsulate the view. The Vituain desert surrounded them, vast in its nothingness.

Gillian Bronte Adams

#12. Russia doesn't want any arms race. Russia would not engage in the arms race. We have enough technological means to provide not very expensive answer to the efforts to build missile defense.

Sergey Lavrov

#13. Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms. Many had no faces. Once they had been saints and angels. Two hundred years standing in London had turned them into cripples.

Anthony Horowitz

#14. In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms.

Elizabeth Alexander

#15. and they still control the world, and you are not in my arms.

Adrienne Rich

#16. It was the dilemma of the watchers: they didn't want to wait around for nothing at all, some idiot standing on the precipice of the towers, but they didn't want to miss the moment either, if he slipped, or got arrested, or dove, arms stretched.

Colum McCann

#17. Mr Ramsay, stumbling along a passage one dark morning, stretched his arms out, but Mrs Ramsay having died rather suddenly the night before, his arms, though stretched out, remained empty.

Virginia Woolf

#18. If boredom is, as Heidegger argued, the awareness of time passing, then surgery felt like the opposite: the intense focus made the arms of the clock seem arbitrarily placed. Two hours could feel like a minute.

Paul Kalanithi

#19. Hey!" I turned, crossing my arms and glaring. "I was talking to him!"
Tybalt eyed me with amusement, which just made me glare harder. "No, you were inciting him to stab you with a toothpick. Again, the difference is small, but I think it matters.

Seanan McGuire

#20. This new day has greeted us with no rules; unconditional opportunity. Do not dilute the power of this new day with the hardship of yesterday. Greet this day the way it has greeted you; with open arms and endless possibility.

Steve Maraboli

#21. Somewhere there is a book that says you ought to cry buckets of tears over yourself and love yourself with a passion and wrap your arms around yourself; only then will you be happy and free. That's a good book.

Joanna Russ

#22. Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

Tammy Wynette

#23. When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.

Jane Porter

#24. When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web.

Jodi Picoult

#25. Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.

Noam Chomsky

#26. Do you feel the magic?" "Aye," he breathed into her salt-dusted hair. "It's all around me, but most especially, here in my arms.

Susan Wiggs

#27. Your love holds you for the first time in his arms and you think, How perfect, how splendid, but then, when your love isn't your love any more, you think only, I let him touch me, how horrid, how vile.

William Goldman

#28. The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not outside. The source of war is not the existence of nuclear weapons or other arms. It is the minds of human beings who decide to push the button and to use those arms out of hatred, anger or greed.

Dalai Lama

#29. Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race.

Arthur Henderson

#30. He was my lifeline,and I was pretty sure he will always be. There was no place I felt safer than when he held me in his arms like this. Sometimes I just want it to stay here, in his chair, and never leave.The outside worlds could melt away, and I wouldn't care.

Sherri Hayes

#31. The details of what I told him were with me all the years in the same way as my hands or my arms were with me.

Colm Toibin

#32. To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket. 1. We must take the profit out of war. 2. We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war. 3. We must limit our military forces to home defense purposes.

Smedley D. Butler

#33. Burn stepped up to the side of the horse and pulled Sora from Crash's arms. Crash was reluctant to let go.

T.L. Shreffler

#34. I came to see the streets and the schools as the arms of the same beast. One enjoyed the official power of the state while the other enjoyed its implicit sanction. But fear and violence were the weaponry of both.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#35. I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people.

Boris Yeltsin

#36. My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

Richard Ford

#37. In that moment, Lux felt complete for the first time. He hadn't even realized anything was missing until he met her, but now, with her curled up in his arms, her hair tickling against his chin, he couldn't imagine existing without her - Virtue - A Fairy Tale

Amanda Hocking

#38. She pushes all the pain out of her arms, kicks the hurt free from her legs. She swims her broken heart out.

Siobhan Vivian

#39. Arms outstretched in welcome could quickly become arms that grabbed.

Terry Pratchett

#40. It is the right to bear arms which is the problem. I think if the Founding Fathers knew what was happening they would be turning in their graves with embarrassment at how that law has been interpreted.

Liam Neeson

#41. English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.

H. Beam Piper

#42. If they will not understand that we are bringing them a mathematically faultless happiness, our duty will be to force them to be happy. But before we take up arms, we shall try the power of words.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#43. Told you he's a cuddly one." The other Arum leaned his arms on the roof of the car and a brow rose over the dark sunglasses he also wore. "Cuddly as a damn porcupine." Daemon raised a middle finger. This was going well.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#44. You okay now ?" he asked.
"Okay."
He tightened his arms and lifted me off my feet. "Mercy?" he growled into my ear. I wrapped my legs around his waist. " Yeah" , I said. "Me too.

Patricia Briggs

#45. I never wanted anyone else, T.J. I just wanted what was best for you."
"You are what's best for me," he said, cradling my head in his arms, his legs intertwined with mine. "I'm not going anywhere, Anna. This is right where I want to be.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#46. And really is there anything in the world more captivating than a beautiful young mother with a healthy baby in her arms? 'What

Anton Chekhov

#47. What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?

Stephen Chbosky

#48. After all, I love him tremendously. When I am in his arms, nothing else matters.

Sarah Hina

#49. For a moment the garden, the noise, the stentch of blood and demon, vanished away, and he was alone in a soundless place with only Tessa. He wanted to run to her, wrap her in his arms. Protect her.
But it was Jem's place to do those things, not his. Not his.

Cassandra Clare

#50. Do you really think you can order me around?" He crossed his arms over his chest in a show of dominance.
"I have more cupcakes in my apartment. You can have them if you fix this tonight."
"Are you trying to bribe me?"
"Is it working?"
"Yes.

Helena Hunting

#51. Bodybuilding has been the tool that single-handedly taught a little black boy from the projects to use his mind to achieve success. it taught me to see things for what they can be. I had 17-inch arms; I imagined them to be 24 inches. The power of my mind allowed me to achieve what I imagined.

Kai Greene

#52. For a moment, they all stood staring at each other. Then Holly shattered the stillness by throwing herself at Angela. "God, Angie!" she exclaimed, arms locked around her neck. "What Happened?

Sarah Rees Brennan

#53. I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west campus."
A pink flush spread over her cheeks. "Don't you ever touch me again. You screw with me, I'll screw you right back."
Oh man, what an opening that was.

Richelle Mead

#54. What was it like ... to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?

Kate DiCamillo

#55. When you hold a child in your arms, or hug your mother, or your husband, or your friend, if you breathe in and out three times, your happiness will be multiplied at least tenfold.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#56. For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

Lurlene McDaniel

#57. I want to leap into his arms and hug him tight. Since my dress is a killing machine, I settle for pressing my palm against his chest.

A.G. Howard

#58. I couldn't help thinking about my dream, with Annabeth crumpled and lifeless in Luke's arms. Here I was rescuing baby monsters, but I couldn't save my friend.

Rick Riordan

#59. How do I look?"
She was wearing a pair of tiny jean shorts and a bright pink T-shirt. Her blond hair was matted on one side and there were dirt smudges all over her arms, legs, and face.
Gabriel hesitated. "Like a Barbie doll that got run over by a garbage truck."
"Wow. Really, Gabriel?

Chelsea Fine

#60. True combat power is arms multiplied by fighting spirit. If one of them is infinitely strong, you will succeed. - Asahi Shimbun newspaper, quoted in Japan at War: An Oral History

James D. Bradley

#61. I've never been the kind of person who would get up and wave my arms and scream and shout and say, 'Hey, listen to this, listen to this.'

Gillian Welch

#62. These are just some arms in the service of a head. Is not this the true organization of the force?

Jules Verne

#63. The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt ... and I could shatter into strange razor-sharp shards.

Suzanne Collins

#64. I'm alone," Angie had told me a month ago.
"No, you're not."
"You're not alone," I said, my arms wrapped around her from behind.
"Yes, I am. And all your holding and all your love can't change that right now.

Dennis Lehane

#65. Women would be wonderful if we could fall into their arms instead of their hands.

Hugo Pratt

#66. Wincing, Celaena slumped next to Rowan on the bench, and swore viciously at the pain in her leg, her face, her arms. Swore at the pain in the ass sitting right next to her.

Sarah J. Maas

#67. Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.

Audre Lorde

#68. Pain and trials are almost constant companions, but never enemies. They drive me into His sovereign arms. There He takes my disappointments and works everything together for good.

Kay Arthur

#69. It's not that hard, Jade. You just sway side to side while a hot guy holds you in his arms." "So we're not even dancing together?" I tease.

Allie Everhart

#70. To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

Billy Corgan

#71. War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon.

Miles Cameron

#72. Those arms make me feel safe. He's always made me feel safe. And it's still a goddamn lie. There is nothing about Jack Frost that is safe.

Heather R. Blair

#73. You must be deadly serious in training. When I say that, I do not mean that you should be reasonably diligent or moderately in earnest. I mean that your opponent must always be present in your mind, whether you sit or stand or walk or raise your arms.

Gichin Funakoshi

#74. Didn't even have to argue with her. She just told me she loved me and offered the back of her neck." He crossed his arms over his chest. "How many pups you got with Janie Mae now, Bubba Ray . . . and still she's as unmarked as a newborn babe. So which Smith has control of his female now, boy?

Shelly Laurenston

#75. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.

Ludwig Von Mises

#76. Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#77. I guess this thing we call faith is a climb. I always wanted to think of it as a big slide straight into the arms of God who waits at the bottom to catch us. But instead, He's a God who's on top of things - & like any mountain you climb, the closer we get to Him, the steeper the terrain.

Lisa Samson

#78. I think you made your opinion clear already. Go home, Eden. And don't worry. I won't bother you anymore." He unlaced his arms and turned away to pick up a new log. "But I want you to bother me!

Karen Witemeyer

#79. In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

Aristotle.

#80. Levi moved his arms around her waist until he was holding her properly. Then he pushed his mouth into her hair. Read to me, sweetheart.

Rainbow Rowell

#81. The wise have two arms, and yet can grasp many things,
and have two eyes, and yet can perceive many things.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#82. WINTER As the winter winds litter London with lonely hearts Oh the warmth in your eyes swept me into your arms Was it love or fear of the cold that led us through the night? For every kiss your beauty trumped my doubt Mumford & Sons ~Winter Winds

Raine Miller

#83. It was two years ago that I first met Yuki. I remember that painfully thin figure covered in dirt: malnourished, exhausted and carrying a sleeping child in his arms like it's the most precious thing in the world.

Kyuugou

#84. He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close.

Chelsie Shakespeare

#85. Mrs. Loontwill did what any well-prepared mother would do upon finding her unmarried daughter in the arms of a gentleman werewolf: she had very decorous, and extremely loud, hysterics.

Gail Carriger

#86. Ash is out of surgery. He has a shit-ton of recovery to do, but he's going to live to roar another day." Cael threw his arms around Dex and squeezed him tight. Dex chuckled and hugged him back. "Okay, Chirpy. Let's go." His brother pulled back and wiped a tear away. "I'm

Charlie Cochet

#87. His arms got tight before he whispered, You like where you are just as much as I like you here.

Kristen Ashley

#88. Francia don't look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.

Patrick Ness

#89. After a war, the silencing of arms is not enough. Peace means respecting all rights. You can't respect one of them and violate the others. When a society doesn't respect the rights of its citizens, it undermines peace and leads it back to war.

Maria Julia Hernandez

#90. My arms wrapped about little Jala, little sister, hot with fever but the fire grew too hot, and so, in my arms, her flesh cooled to dawn-stone, mother keening - Jala was the ember now lifeless, and from that day, in mother's eyes, I became naught but its bed of ash.

Steven Erikson

#91. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.

Mahatma Gandhi

#92. 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

#93. Fuck me, Ruger muttered, leaning his forehead down against mine. I was still wrapped around him, back against the van, enclosed in his arms

Joanna Wylde

#94. Percy threw his arms around her. They kissed, and for a moment nothing else mattered. An asteroid could have hit the planet and wiped out all life, and Annabeth wouldn't have cared.

Rick Riordan

#95. Nicole was always there with her door open, her arms open, her ears open - just what you need.

Naomi Watts

#96. Not to be vain, but I have nice long legs, so I like to accentuate them. Find what part of your body you love most - it can be your arms, your chest, your legs - and emphasize that.

Khloe Kardashian

#97. I walked along the shore in the morning light, the winds have slept in the arms of dawn after crying all night.

Ipsit Bibhudarshi

#98. The creature took Aelin's face in its hands, and her sword thudded to the ground, forgotten.
Rowan was screaming as the creature pulled her into its arms. As she stopped fighting. As her flames winked out and darkness swallowed her whole.

Sarah J. Maas

#99. If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Winston S. Churchill

#100. He was and probably still is, to this day, the worst-smelling person I have ever hugged. But it was wonderful. He just wrapped his arms all the way around me. He hugged me the way that parents hug: with them doing all the work.

Heather O'Neill