Quotes of: Limb Keyword

[Government]is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.

Otto von Bismarck

Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me, Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….

Sappho

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.

Bryan Q. Miller

I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It only became a success when she came along.

Joanna Lumley

Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.

The Fault in Our Stars

We will walk to God barefoot: our feet lacerated, our limbs wounded.

Nostalgia, My Enemy

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

Saul Bellow

I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed veterans. I was making 150 bucks a week and it was horrible.

Big Sean

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

Jan Karon

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

William Wordsworth

A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.

Michael Huffington

Again, it is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than t...

The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

Finally, both of them fell asleep together with their limbs entwined in the eternal position of a lover's embrace.

Longinus the Vampire: Redemption

Neither man nor any animal can enjoy life to the full without taking some risks to life or limb.

Uncle Whiskers

His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!

Richard Harris Barham

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Kahlil Gibran

Let all the green leaves be mine as long as the trees define shades created by their limbs for the soil made with victims of atrocity's vileness to redeem the fragileness

Munia Khan

When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living.

Robin Quivers

Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a great thing to do in my book.

Jo Brand

Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with.

Lewis Tappan

People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them.

Dominic Monaghan