Limbs Quotes

337 Limbs quotes by 273 unique authors

When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people with whom we had no… — John Pilger
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
...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals. — Gregory Maguire
Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a way you don't… — Russell Howard
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
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge… — Henry David Thoreau
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
Every one says: 'Listen, I'd love to reinvest. I'd love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill is going to… — Kristi Noem
You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel. — Henry Bolingbroke
All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then… — Saadi
A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came… — Walt Whitman
I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they… — Heinrich Heine
Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust… — Victor Hugo
I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I… — Taki Theodoracopulos
Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth. — E. M. Forster
Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves.... The promise of gold and crimson is there… — Hal Borland
My daddy's face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche, his eyebrows… — Toni Morrison
Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it… — Thomas Carlyle
There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity… — Alexander Smith
The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any… — B.K.S. Iyengar

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