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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. -- Victor Hugo
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? -- Patrick Henry
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. -- Leo Buscaglia
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. -- James Madison
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. -- James Madison
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. -- Aleister Crowley
Arms and laws do not flourish together. -- Julius Caesar
Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose. -- Miguel de Cervantes
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms. -- Thomas Jefferson
Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament. -- David T. Dellinger
Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament. -- David T. Dellinger
Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values. -- Dalai Lama
I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make. -- Eli Whitney
I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied. -- Ernest Hemingway
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. -- Thomas Jefferson
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. -- Aristotle
Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order... -- Thomas Paine
Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense. -- John Adams
Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men. -- John F. Kennedy
The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest. -- Thomas Paine
Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms. -- Ron Paul
Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed. -- Boyd K. Packer
Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You're Either Lying Or Crazy. -- Merlin Mann
Runners don't run with their legs, they run ON their legs. In reality, they run with their Arms! -- Percy Cerutty
I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie. -- Rita Ora
I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied. -- Ernest Hemingway
You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong. -- Barbara Bush
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll
As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. -- John F. Kennedy
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. -- Thomas Jefferson
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. -- Samuel Adams
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. -- Barbara Bush
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. -- J. Michael Straczynski
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race. -- Herman Kahn
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. -- Samuel Adams
The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace. -- Mahmoud Darwish
I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes. -- Ian Somerhalder
To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms. -- Christina Aguilera
There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas. -- Robert Staughton Lynd
Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness. -- Max von Sydow
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. -- Victor Hugo
Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude. -- Nick Vujicic
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you. -- Muhammad Ali
I feel like life is really short, and it's important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it's a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can't escape challenges; they are part of life. -- Miranda Kerr
Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters. -- Russell Smith
We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames. -- Nancy Gibbs
My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things. -- Saffron Aldridge
Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport. -- Samantha Stosur
I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.' -- Jennifer Lawrence
Fury itself supplies arms. -- Virgil
Imparadis'd in one another's arms. -- John Milton
Dmitri was in my arms. -- Richelle Mead
Fear is stronger than arms. -- Aeschylus
Love is always open arms. -- Leo Buscaglia
Golf is played with the arms. -- Sam Snead
Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms. -- James Beattie
Infinite goodness has such wide arms. -- Dante Alighieri
The man-at-arms is the only man. -- Henrik Ibsen
Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. -- Charles Baudelaire
Love," he said, "has the longest arms. -- Megan McCafferty
Good luck reaches farther than long arms. -- Henry George Bohn
Free men have arms; slaves do not. -- William Blackstone
Lean back into the arms of grace. -- Cheryl Richardson
The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms. -- John Dryden
Stark truth, is seldom met with open arms. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
I do not wish disaster to British arms. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To take arms against a sea of troubles. -- William Shakespeare
Law stands mute in the midst of arms. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm not an expert on the arms race. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms. -- Virgil
How can my ankles and arms be obscene? -- Libba Bray
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms. -- Wendell Phillips
But in my arms she was always Lolita. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Laws are dumb in the midst of arms. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me. -- Tammy Wynette
I'm not an expert on the arms race. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The force of arms only reveals man s weakness. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Open your arms if you want the Beloved's embrace. -- Rumi
Rome was great in arms, in government, in law. -- Goldwin Smith
Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy. -- Samuel Pisar
Terrorists also want to use simple and reliable arms. -- Mikhail Kalashnikov
A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's. -- Princess Diana
You cannot export revolution, progress, by force of arms. -- Rashid Khalidi
There's something about soft, unstructured arms that's very beautiful. -- Jill Clayburgh
Relax in the precious arms of the Holy Spirit. -- T. B. Joshua
Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms. -- George Stillman Hillard
We find ourselves in the arms of the Creator. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The moon had the old moon in her arms ... -- Dorothy Wordsworth
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms -- Thomas Jefferson
What did my arms do before they held you? -- Sylvia Plath
My arms are too short to box with God. -- Johnny Cash
The body is a rock; the arms are snakes -- Claudio Arrau
Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms. -- Henry George Bohn
If a girl comes into your arms, that's pretty romantic. -- Robert Englund
Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men. -- Pope John Paul II
Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score -- Frederick the Great
A library should be like a pair of open arms. -- Roger Rosenblatt
The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms. -- Hildegard of Bingen
Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I did my time in the jail of your arms -- Tom Waits
Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain ... -- Eugenie de Guerin
The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms. -- George S. Patton
Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? -- John Keats
Snakes have no arms. That's why they don't wear vests. -- Steven Wright
The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law. -- Michel de Montaigne
People have a right to be able to bear arms. -- Mitt Romney
I have 2 weapons; my arms, my legs and my brain. -- Michael Vick
We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I got kicked out of Riverdance for using my arms. -- Gary Valentine
The best place to cry is on a mother's arms. -- Jodi Picoult
We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I go through money like a bloke with three arms. -- Anton du Beke
Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms -- Leonard Cohen
The people have a right to keep and bear arms. -- Patrick Henry
The best way to hold a man is in your arms. -- Mae West
I could never have embraced this many people with two arms. -- Bethany Hamilton

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