Limbs Quotes

• When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

  Khalil Gibran

  Death, Grieving, Bereavement

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor

  Johnny Weissmuller

  Next Day, Tree, Directors

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• For me, the safest place is out on a limb.

  Shirley MacLaine

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• 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 a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Brain, Intuition

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• 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 ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

  Henry Miller

  Change, Pain, Men

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.339, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

  Khalil Gibran

  Rivers, Silence, Drink

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.128, Lulu.com

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• The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Funny, Happiness, War

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• I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

  George Eliot

  Music, Thinking, Should Have

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

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• Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

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• And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Imagination, Mountain

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.

  Hesiod

  Beautiful, Wise, Heart

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• Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

  Walter Benjamin

  Beautiful, Block, Past

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• I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

  Martial

  Love, Hands, Missing

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• So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

  Alastair Campbell

  Happiness, Happy Life, Views

  "How I got happy and stayed grumpy" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Children, Adults, Fetus

  United States Supreme Court, Stenberg, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. v. Carhart, (2000), No. 99-830, caselaw.findlaw.com. June 28, 2000.

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• Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Boys, Names

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.1549, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.

  Dylan Thomas

  Drinking, Clothes, Alcohol

  Dylan Thomas (1967). “Selected letters”

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• If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine.

  George Lopez

  Laughing, Machines, Factories

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• Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

  Khalil Gibran

  Grieving, Rivers, Silence

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.128, Lulu.com

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• 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, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully.

  Hugh Laurie

  Pain, Memories, Thinking

  "Hugh Laurie's 'House': No Pain, No Gain". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 25, 2012.

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• My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Soul, Majesty

  William Shakespeare (1963). “Hamlet”, p.41, CUP Archive

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• 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 review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

  Al Gore

  Culture, Peers, Peer Review

  "Al Gore's views on climate change, extreme weather and Keystone XL". Interview with Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• 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 want to see you march to the end of a limb.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Thinking, Degrees, Want

  "Elizabeth Edwards: Resilience Remembered". www.npr.org. December 8, 2010.

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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

  Father, Eye, Men

  Gerard Manley Hopkins, Bob Blaisdell (2011). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• 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 client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.

  Orson Welles

  Fighting, Sitting, Use

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