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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• 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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• 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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• 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 value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.

  Gerhard Richter

  Jealous, Inability, Inferiority

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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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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• 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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• 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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• I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

  George Eliot

  Music, Thinking, Ideas

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.

  Peter Farrelly

  Movie, Inspiring, Stress

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• 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 do to my bottom line. I have no idea what this financial reform bill is going to do... I'm not going to step out a limb and do any of those until I know what this government is going to do to me.

  Kristi Noem

  Government, Ideas, People

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• When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

  Ralph Marston

  Children, Play, Quiet Moments

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• In life you have a choice: Bitter or Better? Choose better, forget bitter.

  Nick Vujicic

  Fake Friends, Choices, Bitter

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• Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

  Benjamin Rush

  Water, Hot, Frozen

  Benjamin Rush (1835). “Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind”, p.119

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• [S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Important Hamlet, Polonius

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Hamlet”, p.44, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

  Elias Canetti

  Men, Lice, Add

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• At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.

  James Merrill

  Dream, College, Thinking

  James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf

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• I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.

  William Wells Brown

  Brother, Wind, Justice

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• My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

  Drew Barrymore

  Acceptance, Your Beautiful, Being Beautiful

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• On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.

  Siobhan Davies

  Acceptance, Hands, Ideas

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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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• Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

  Victor Hugo

  Sympathy, Sorrow, Doe

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