Arms Quotes - Page 2

• Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.

  Wendell Phillips

  Insurrection

  "Speeches, Lectures, and Letters".

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• The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!

  Robert Browning

  Eye, Kissing, Romantic Love

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.667, Wordsworth Editions

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• A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Country, Behavior, Ethical

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• When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

  John Barrymore

  Venus De Milo, Boxing, Missing

  "The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists". Book by Bert Randolph Sugar and Teddy Atlas, January 11, 2011.

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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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• Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

  Bono

  Kissing, Past, Ducks

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• Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

  Moshe Dayan

  Aggravation, Advice, Decline

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• Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

  Francois Rabelais

  House, Useless, Study

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• Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Gun, Rights, Second Amendment

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• I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

  Samuel de Champlain

  Men, People, Savages

  Samuel de Champlain (1907). “Voyages of Samuel de Champlain 1604-1618: With a Map and Two Plans”

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• I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

  Andrei Platonov

  Soldier, Want, Scales

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• But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Life, Two, Promise

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• For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

  Roland Barthes

  Long, Theatre, Needs

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• Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

  Alexei Sayle

  Brother, Stupid, Band

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• Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president.

  Stephen Dorff

  Mean, Thinking, Scary

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• I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.

  Kirstie Alley

  Long, Lasts, Body

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• As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize,... The people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear arms.

  Tench Coxe

  People, Second Amendment, May

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• Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

  Alice Walker

  Sister, Inspiring, Sibling

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• I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.

  Alvin Ailey

  Girl, Dance, Long

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• I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

  Steven Wright

  Museums, Comedy, Statues

  "Steven Wright Special". Comedy, 1985.

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• You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty - Which draws us together.

  Boris Pasternak

  Life, Fall, Roots

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• From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.

  Steve Buyer

  Depression, Country, Struggle

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• Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Farewell

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.270

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• But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.

  Robert Smith

  Trying, Limits, Mines

  Guitar Player magazine, 1992.

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