Limb Quotes

152 quotes by 142 authors

I know he's coming by this sign, That baby's almost wild; See how he laughs and crows and starts â€” Heaven, bless the merry child!… — Mary Howitt
A monster lies in wait in me,a stew of wounds and misery.But fiercer still in life and limb,the me that lies in wait in him — Clive Barker
There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be… — Roger Ebert
To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd… — John Wyndham
The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of… — Dallas Willard
The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one limb, the other… — Saadi
We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting. — Richard L. Evans
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god. — Derek Walcott
There's lots of opportunities out there in life, but if you never put yourself out on a limb and take chances you'll never dare to… — Brian Griese
Its, the gum tree, main appeal to me has been its combination of mightiness and delicacy - mighty in its strength of limb and delicate… — Hans Heysen
Have you been called to go out on a limb for God? You can bet it won't be easy. Limb-climbing has never been easy. Ask… — Max Lucado
I know it's easier to portray a world filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence...It's an easy out. What's a whole… — Jim Henson
How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your… — Eudora Welty
A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival… — Aldous Huxley
Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit. — William Shakespeare
LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman. — Ambrose Bierce
The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived.… — Plutarch
My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application… — Clara Barton
Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a… — Freddie Mercury
All of us , I believe , carry about in our heads places and landscapes we shall never forget because we have experienced such intensity… — Roger Deakin

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