Limb Quotes

152 Limb quotes by 142 unique authors

Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers,… — Martin Van Buren
I would lay down my life to defend any one of the States from aggression, which endangered peace or threatened its institutions. I could do… — Sam Houston
The limb that a person most needs to purify is his tongue. — Abu Nu`aym
O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of… — Phoebe Cary
On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the… — Siobhan Davies
I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment… — Guy Sajer
When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living — Robin Quivers
In form and feature, face and limb, I grew so like my brother That folks got taking me for him And each for one another.… — Henry Sambrooke Leigh
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches. — Elizabeth Kolbert
Did you measure to attain your height? Did you use geometry to radiate your limb? Did you lament storm-torn branches? Did you inventory your leaves… — Ming-Dao Deng
The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was… — Johnny Weissmuller
Follow your dreams as long as you live! Never be afraid to go out on the limb to live up to your expectations. Always do… — Picabo Street
I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits — Samuel Johnson
I am cursed with a right leg that arouses the desire of any male dog that happens to be passing. I used to think that… — Jasper Carrott
While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be… — Quentin Crisp
I know he's coming by this sign, That baby's almost wild; See how he laughs and crows and starts — 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

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