Limbs Quotes - Page 7

• It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

  Thomas Hardy

  Eye, Rays, Sun

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Ubervilles”, p.81, Xist Publishing

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• ...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]." Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever.

  Kristin Hannah

  Hurt, Pain, Cutting

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• It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin lies down with the limb.

  Conrad Aiken

  Stars, Lying, Firefly

  Conrad Aiken (1964). “A seizure of limericks”

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• The sun with loving light makes bright for me each day, the soul with spirit power gives strength unto my limbs. In sunlight shining clear I revere, Oh God, the strength of humankind, which thou has planted in my soul, that I may with all my might, may love to work and learn. From thee stream light and strength to thee rise love and thanks.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Light, Giving, Shining

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• Next to fat babies, midgets are my favorite things to hold. I love them so much, and I want to help them to do adult things like drive cars, Jet-Ski, and lip-synch. I’m in awe of their little limbs, their large craniums, and their medicine-ball asses. I love the little baby steps they take while shifting their weight from side to side, and the fact that when you knock one over accidentally, he flails like a turtle on its back that can’t get up right away.

  Chelsea Handler

  Baby, Turtles, Medicine

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Hypocrite, Break Off, Want

  Joe R. Lansdale (2012). “Edge of Dark Water”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Past, Men

  Victor Hugo (1905). “Works: Les misérables; Fantine. Cosette. Marius. Saint-Denis. Jean Valjean”

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• Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people's livelihoods

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, War, Acceptance

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• The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on.... A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.

  Aldo Leopold

  Fall, Autumn, Wind

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• It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

  Michelangelo

  Badass, Bad Ass, Men

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, E. H. Ramsden (1963). “The Letters of Michelangelo”, p.129, Stanford University Press

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• Limbs of a dismembered poet.

  Horace

  Latin, Poet

  Satires bk. 1, no. 4, l. 62

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• An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

  George Washington

  Drinking, Hands, Alcohol

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1931). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799”

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• What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Sleep

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1019, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body's work's expir'd: For then my thoughts-from far where I abide- Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee, And keep my drooping eyelids open wide, Looking on darkness which the blind do see: Save that my soul's imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night, Makes black night beauteous and her old face new. Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind, For thee, and for myself no quiet find.

  William Shakespeare

  Tired, Night, Journey

  Sonnet 27

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• Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...

  Cesar Chavez

  Men, Humanity, Special

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• Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils; not theological demons inspired by the evil one, but scientific Freudian abominations inspired by the unconscious.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Educational, Angel

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.60, Routledge

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• As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ideas, Long, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.66

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• Our goal as a team is to keep playing as a group for as long as we can because you will never have that team again. It is like a dying limb, you have to prune it off and let another one grow in its place. That is the way you have to do it, but it still hurts losing these guys and that team because they and you have put so much effort into building a team. Even if you win that last game (and a national championship), it hurts badly because the players know they will never have that same special group of guys together on the same team again. Somebody always goes and somebody new always comes in.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Hurt, Team

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• Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother restrict their freedom of speech on campus. This demand for enhanced censorship is not emanating only from the usual corner - the know-nothing fundamentalist right - it is coming from the radical, and increasingly not-so-radical left as well.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Brother, College, Government

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• Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities.

  John Ruskin

  Encouragement, Teaching, Science

  John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

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• O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.

  William Blake

  Summer, Flames, Hair

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• Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver.

  Chuck Pfarrer

  Badass, Heart, Special

  Chuck Pfarrer (2003). “Warrior Soul: The Memoir of a Navy SEAL”, p.392, Random House

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• Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had burst the narrow limits of its inclosure. Imagine the additions made where the projecting limbs had fairly and far emerged beyond the confines of the garment. Imagine the boy still growing, and the clothes, mended all over, now more than ever in want of mending - such is chemistry, and such its nomenclature.

  John Joseph Griffin

  School, Science, Boys

  "Chemical Recreations" by John Joseph Griffin, 7th Edition, (p. 189), 1834.

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• Man was destined for society. His morality therefore was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong merely relative to this. This sense is as much a part of his nature as the sense of hearing, seeing, feeling; it is the true foundation of morality... The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or less degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Men, Psychology

  Thomas Jefferson's letter to Peter Carr, founders.archives.gov. August 10, 1787.

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• I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late autumn time, when the white mist creeps across the fields, making it seem as though old Earth, feeling the night air cold to its poor bones, were drawing ghostly bedclothes round its withered limbs.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Lying, Autumn, Night

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Silhouettes”, p.5, Read Books Ltd

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