Top 1200 Arms Race Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I heard friends and strangers saying, "You don't look Arab - what are you supposed to be?" It really is a tired old problem for children of immigrants and kids of mixed race, constantly trying to explain yourself. Eventually, you give up and say, "Okay, what do you think I am?" When you're in the midst of it, you come to understand that "race" is a loose social construct, a series of visual impressions, and that your identity can be whatever the hell crazy thing you want it to be, you just have to grow a sense of humor and cultivate selective deafness.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.

Africa is still lying ready for us it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race more of the best the most human, most honorable race the world possesses.

The legs and arms can be a revelation of the back, the spine's extensions.

That which one fears, one typically won't embrace with open arms.

And now we can't," I said. "Which sucks, but the main thing is that your dad's alive." He smiled, hesitant at first, then a blazing grin broke through that made my heart stop. I recovered and grinned back and went to throw my arms around his neck, then stopped, blushing. Before I could pull back, he caught my elbows and put my arms around his neck and pulled me into a hug. Then he jumped, chair swiveling so fast I nearly went flying. I heard footsteps in the hall and I scrambled off his lap just as Simon swung in, breathing heavily, like he'd come running.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.

Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?

When I got the phone call that I was going to be on 'Drag Race' I thought I was going to win. I thought I was going to win 'Drag Race' before I was even cast. I'm not even being funny. I'm being serious.

I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.

The behavior of the minority ... warranted the sergeant at arms being called.

The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.

I don't wear a watch because I want my arms to weigh the same.

The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.

I've got a small gym in my house so I can work my arms and shoulders.

We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

In every generation and in every intellectual sphere and in every political moment, there have been African American women who have articulated the need to think and talk about race through a lens that looks at gender or think and talk about feminism through a lens that looks at race.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?

I like the definition in someone's shoulders and arms. It's beautiful.

Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you! The bright dreams were too rudely dispelled; you were not prepared for the new life that opened before you, and the great masses of the North learned to look upon your helplessness with indifference-learned to speak of you as an idle, dependent race. Reason should have prompted kinder thoughts. Charity is ever kind.

If you want bigger arms, target the triceps, not the biceps.

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

I could never have embraced this many people with two arms.

I hadn't fallen through his arms. He was ripped from mine.

Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.

My only challenges for winter are jackets because I have big arms.

What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with the language we use to justify it. In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color "criminals" and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.

It's a lonely ol' night. Can I put my arms around you?

It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.

Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was a Negro. Must I not also go hang my head in shame when a member of my race does something execrable? . . . The white race did not go into a laboratory and invent incandescent light. That was Edison. . . . If you are under the impression that every white man is an Edison, just look around a bit.

She turned to Skulduggery and held out her arms. “Come here, you.” He tilted his head. “My hugs are for special occasions only.” “Hug me.” “I prefer the old tradition.” “Hug.” “Would a handshake do?” “Hug.” “A pat on the back?” She stepped forward and wrapped her arms round him. “Hug,” she said. He sighed, and his hands settled on her shoulders. The others were warm and their embraces strong – with Skulduggery the hug was cold, and there were areas on his jacket that gave way beneath her fingers, and she could feel the emptiness within. She didn’t mind.

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

I go through money like a bloke with three arms.

I like to wear sleeves because they cover up my arms.

If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.

Open your arms if you want the Beloved's embrace.

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

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Where do we end, and what is the self? You cut off your arm, you're still yourself. You cut off two of your arms, you're still yourself. You cut off your arms and your legs, you're still yourself, right? Also, the idea of the self seems to be embedded right around here, right around the eyes. Infants know to look at the eyes.

Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

You can give into a relationship and warmth and the arms of another person.

I wear adult sizes but chop off the arms and legs.

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year. Those who forget WHY they were founded show up to the race every day to outdo someone else instead of to outdo themselves. The pursuit, for those who lose sight of WHY they are running the race, is for the medal or to beat someone else.

If you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness if you know the history of the whole concept of the white race, where it came from and for what reason you know that it was a trick, and it's worked brilliantly. You see, prior to the mid to late 1600s, in the colonies of what would become the United States, there was no such thing as the white race. Those of us of European descent did not refer to ourselves by that term really ever before then.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

I would not think to touch the sky with two arms

Obama is under incredible pressure to supply arms to Ukraine.

I would welcome a Mike Tyson fight with open arms.

The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms.

If God didn't want you to masturbate, he would have given you short arms.