Limbs Quotes · Page 2

“May they run free forever and grow back their limbs!”

— Henry Mosquera

Limbs of a dismembered poet.

— Horace

Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

— George Eliot

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

— Jodi Picoult

God has no forms, no limbs, no qualities, no preferences, no prejudices.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Life are only as long as beautiful Until your limbs are intact,

— Mak_786

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

— Lord Byron

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

— Shirley MacLaine

Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.

— Sappho

Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

— E. M. Forster

I'm still here and kicking and, you know, I have all my limbs so you'll never hear me complain.

— Kyle Carpenter

In form and feature, face and limb, I grew so like my brother That folks got taking me for him And each…

— Henry Sambrooke Leigh

A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of…

— Michael Huffington

Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment. “I will rend your limbs from their sockets!”…

— Rick Riordan

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

— Henry Bolingbroke

I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the…

— Howard Zinn

I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that…

— Lauren DeStefano

Reincarnation is, indeed, the key which unlocks all doors, the universal "combination," before which our manacles fall from our limbs -- the…

— Shaw Desmond

There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational…

— William Wordsworth

...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness…

— Kristin Hannah

We are here for what amounts to a few/hours,/a day at most./We feel around making sense of the terrain,/our own new limbs,/Bumping…

— Tracy K. Smith

Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this…

— Gerhard Richter

A land not mine, still forever memorable, the waters of its ocean chill and fresh. Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk,…

— Anna Akhmatova

I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we…

— Anonymous

There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and…

— Franz Kafka

[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of…

— Bernardino Ramazzini

Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of…

— Karen Thompson Walker

McKenna will always be a part of me, no matter where he goes. They say that people who've lost a limb sometimes…

— Lisa Kleypas

Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of…

— Thomas Jefferson

A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense……

— Walt Whitman

While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a…

— Charles Lindbergh

Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along…

— Janet Frame

The government has brought on the housing problem, partly by these very low interest rates, which encouraged many people to go way…

— Thomas Sowell

Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.

— Alice Dunbar Nelson

I think we're out on a limb right now, hanging over a cliff, and we're trying to find a way to get…

— Charlie Manuel

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

— Michelangelo

Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree.

— Stephen Jay Gould

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

— Saul Bellow