Limb Quotes
152 Limb quotes by 142 unique authors
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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
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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
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The limb that a person most needs to purify is his tongue.
— Abu Nu`aym
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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
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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
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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
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When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living
— Robin Quivers
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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
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In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
— Elizabeth Kolbert
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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
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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
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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
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I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Limb Quotes
142 authors contributed a total of 152 Limb Quotes, led by these top contributors: