Limbs Quotes
337 Limbs quotes by 273 unique authors
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For Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the Father through the features of men’s faces.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; — hung it with…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Life without limbs? Or life without limits?
— Nick Vujicic
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And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain - the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending…
— Stephenie Meyer
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You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.
— Jodi Picoult
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All I know is, if we don't eat soon I'm going to chew off a limb. And I can't guarentee it'll be mine.
— Susane Colasanti
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This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in…
— Ian Mcewan
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But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything…
— Jodi Picoult
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I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead…
— Douglas Adams
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The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs…
— Elizabeth Berg
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I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not.
— Jeaniene Frost
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Bones didn’t share any of my qualms about suddenly holding an arm that wasn’t attached to a body anymore. He just grabbed the ghoul by…
— Jeaniene Frost
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I think this’ll definitely tide me over while we’re apart,”Bones laughed, dragging me into his arms with far more strength and quickness than was fair,…
— Jeaniene Frost
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Arrayed in a new body another mother may someday give birth so that with stronger limbs and brighter mind the old soul shall take the…
— P. C. Cast
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A land not mine, still forever memorable, the waters of its ocean chill and fresh. Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk, and the air…
— Anna Akhmatova
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I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was…
— Jodi Picoult
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But that mimosa grove-the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with her…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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The gaiaphage. That's the other word they use. 'Gaia,' as in world. 'Phage,' as in a worm or something that eats something up. I'm going…
— Michael Grant
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Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. I have tasted of the hidden honey…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers…
— Jeffrey McDaniel
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All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded…
— William Shakespeare
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I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less…
— Christopher Hitchens
Who Wrote These Limbs Quotes
273 authors contributed a total of 337 Limbs Quotes, led by these top contributors: