Arms And Legs Quotes

• Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Courage

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspirational, Dance, Dancing

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”

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• Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

  Mel Brooks

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Eye, Men, Two

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• Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.

  William Shatner

  Baby, Eye, Body

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• Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.22

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• Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hurt, Believe, Past

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  If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

  Nick Vujicic

  Heart, Men, Hands

  FaceBook post by Nick Vujicic from Jul 11, 2016

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• I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Two, Legs

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• The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Men, Swag, Circles

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• Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

  Jim Henson

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• In this particular tub, two knees jut up like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise on arms and legs in a fringe of kelp; green soap navigates the tidal slosh of seas breaking on legendary beaches; in faith we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.

  Sylvia Plath

  Beach, Stars, Real

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Design, Lazy

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• There was movement along the fringe of Chauncey's vision, and he snapped his head to the left. At first glance what appeared to be a large angel topping a nearby monument rose to full height. Neither stone nor marble, the boy had arms and legs. His torso was naked, his feet were bare, and peasant trousers hung low on his waist. He hopped down from the monument, the ends of his hair dripping rain. It slid down his face, which was dark as a Spaniard's.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Rain, Angel, Dark

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony; sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.

  Ann Aguirre

  Block, Legs, Arms

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Enclave”, p.194, Macmillan

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• Sharks attack surfers because they look like a seal. Apparently, when you're layng on your board and you have your arms and legs hanging off, from underneath you look like a seal. So I just got a picture of a seal and put a red line through it and put it underneath my board.

  Henry Cho

  Sharks, Red, Boards

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• The more arms and legs [children] we have, the richer we are.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Children, Legs, Arms

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• For me dancing is not just moving your arms and legs but basically it's a very spiritual experience. It's part of me and a second nature to me. You can say it is in my blood.

  Madhuri Dixit

  Spiritual, Moving, Blood

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• If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'?

  Peter Boettke

  Swimming, Gold, Legs

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• I will make an average man into an average dancer, provided he be passably well made. I will teach him how to move his arms and legs, to turn his head. I will give him steadiness, brilliancy and speed; but I cannot endow him with that fire and intelligence, those graces and that expression of feeling which is the soul of true pantomime.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Dance, Moving, Men

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• When you’ve been poor all your life, you never really think it could be any other way. And sometimes you’re even happy, because at least you’ve got your family and your health and your arms and legs and a roof over your head.

  Marie Lu

  Thinking, Roof Over Your Head, Legs

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• My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

  Douglas Adams

  Brother, Fall, Order

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.110, Del Rey

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• You have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it. When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life.

  Viola Davis

  Desperate Situations, Two, Choices

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Money can't heal your heart. Money can't give you purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I want purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I want peace. I don't want arms and legs, I want to be a miracle for someone else.

  Nick Vujicic

  Heart, Giving, Miracle

  FaceBook post by Nick Vujicic from May 14, 2016

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• I challenged God. I said, 'God, I know that I'm a sinner. I know that I won't probably have peace until You're in my heart. But I will not let You in my heart until You answer me, why? Why did you take my arms and legs? Why didn't You give me what everybody else has? God, until You answer me that question, I will not serve You.'

  Nick Vujicic

  Heart, Giving, Answers

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