Search in quotes: arms

18 quotes

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual...

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

Quote by John Adams about self-control

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

Quote by Thomas Paine about war, law, order, use, world

Arms clasped around them, the knees support my forehead and I don't know why so warm the eyes of the sky seem and so deep... they tell me to sleep... I am not yet born, a bird waiting for its flight...

Quote by Mariana Fulger about flight, sleep, sky, eyes

You cannot hold everybody in your arms. You can hold in your arms only a man. If that man is the loved one, then you can say that you are holding the entire world in your arms.

Quote by Paul Louis Lampert about love, contentment, man, world

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

Quote by Muhammad Ali about age, death, people, contentment, faith, day, life

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and...

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Quote by Aristotel about guvernement, people

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are...

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Quote by Winston Churchill about contentment

This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my...

This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.

Quote by Princess Diana about suffering, voice, face

Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about nation

The inevitable result was the balance of power, the arms...

The inevitable result was the balance of power, the arms race, the dividing up of the world into rival alliances, and ultimately, war.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about war, power, world

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in...

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about imagination, happiness, man

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, man

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search...

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about good, good luck

The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about nation, children

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about violence, problems, man

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread...

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

Quote by Ron Paul about example, force, police, good, good luck

To identify happiness when it is at your feet, having the courage and determination to bend over for take it in your arms... and hold on to it. That's the intelligence of heart.

Quote by Marc Levy about heart, determination, intelligence, courage, happiness

I could fall in love with you, but I'm already in love, over my head... with you. With whole heart, soul, arms, with my eyes I include you in a single and eternal unforgetting. RightWords Translation

Quote by Mariana Fulger about heads, fall, eyes, love, soul, heart, contentment

Last quotes

You shoot my finger, trigger finger, boss finger, Boian... (Anghel Damian)

I’m trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am.... (Kim Ung-Yong)

Everything that men do or think concerns the satisfaction... (Albert Einstein)

I have only two rules which I regard as principles of... (Albert Einstein)

Top quotes

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the... (William Blake)

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is... (Henry Ford)

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the... (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Beckett)

Random quotes

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by... (C. Northcote Parkinson)

It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was,... (Mark Oliphant)

In the eyes of your professor, you are ALWAYS wrong, so... (Edward A. Murphy)

Certainly the idea of an international police force... (Lester B. Pearson)

Authors

Famous quotes

Folklore