“ First I shake the whole apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise-whatever appeals to you. ”
- Krzysztof Kieslowski- Copy
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“ Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. ”
- Alice Walker- Copy
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“ The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand? ”
- Ninette De Valois- Copy
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“ Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness. ”
- Marie de Vichy Chamrond- Copy
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“ These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished. ”
- Christopher Columbus- Copy
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“ A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven. ”
- Jerome K. Jerome- Copy
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“ Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms. ”
- De Finod- Copy
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“ When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves. ”
- John Barrymore- Copy
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“ He wants to play. The doctors are concerned because he had a very severe broken arm and... if we did something with him there could be nerve damage. ”
- Joe Paterno- Copy
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“ To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers. ”
- Hans Christian Andersen- Copy
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“ Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living… ”
- Mel Brooks- Copy
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“ It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep… ”
- D.H. Lawrence- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ I would think of more like a frog... big thighs, huge thighs. Kermit thighs. We're going to blend Kermit the Frog with Miss Piggy. This is actually the illegitimate child of Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy. ”
- George Lucas- Copy
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“ Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." N.B.: This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms… ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ His legs bestrid the ocean: his reared arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. ”
- Saul Bellow- Copy
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