Limbs Quotes

337 Limbs quotes by 273 unique authors

The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded… — Henry Fielding
Things that are really offensive make me laugh because I like things that push the envelope, go out on a limb, and are bold. — Courteney Cox
As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I… — Al Franken
Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer… — Al Gore
One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't… — Elizabeth Edwards
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. — Victor Hugo
I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain,… — Hugh Laurie
First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch… — Martin Luther
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is. — Shirley MacLaine
For me, the safest place is out on a limb. — Shirley MacLaine
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial… — Henry Miller
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love… — Pablo Picasso
Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create… — Gerhard Richter
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. — Will Rogers
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. — Robert Southey
As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his… — Orson Welles
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. — Frank Lloyd Wright
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you… — Diane Setterfield
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto --… — Diane Ackerman
He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from… — Euripides
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a… — Vladimir Nabokov
One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the… — Jan Karon
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim… — Khalil Gibran
In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually… — Rebecca Solnit

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