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I do oppose_x000D__x000D_My patience to his fury, and am arm'd_x000D__x000D_To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,_x000D__x000D_The very tyranny and rage of his.
We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it._x000D__x000D_Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865._x000D__x000D_Or arm th' obdured breast_x000D__x000D_With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
~When Valentina was not even 1 month old, my aunt [gave me the best advice]: 'Put her to sleep yourself every night. Sing to her and cradle her in your arms and sit by her side - every night. Because one day you won't be able to, and it's going to happen really fast.~
And on her lover's arm she leant,_x000D__x000D_And round her waist she felt it fold,_x000D__x000D_And far across the hills they went_x000D__x000D_In that new world which is the old.
Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.
It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
In your arms was still delight,_x000D__x000D_Quiet as a street at night;_x000D__x000D_And thoughts of you, I do remember,_x000D__x000D_Were green leaves in a darkened chamber,_x000D__x000D_Were dark clouds in a moonless sky.
Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope,_x000D__x000D_And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath_x000D__x000D_In that close kiss and drank her whisper'd tales._x000D__x000D_They said that Love would die when Hope was gone._x000D__x000D_And Love mourn'd long, and sorrow'd after Hope;_x000D__x000D_At last she sought out Memory, and they trod_x000D__x000D_The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope,_x000D__x000D_And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears.
If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.
Imparadis'd in one another's arms.
Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views,_x000D__x000D_Life's little cares and little pains refuse?_x000D__x000D_Shall he not rather feel a double share_x000D__x000D_Of mortal woe, when doubly arm'd to bear?
As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes all things new. It insures the progress which it predicts. Rooted in faith, growing up into love; these make the three immortal graces of the Gospel, whose intertwined arms and concurrent voices shed joy and peace over our human life.
To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.
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.
The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
I will make an average man into an average dancer, provided he be passably well made. I will teach him how to move his arms and legs, to turn his head. I will give him steadiness, brilliancy and speed; but I cannot endow him with that fire and intelligence, those graces and that expression of feeling which is the soul of true pantomime.
The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem to dance in their heads.
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