“As for my destination, I don’t think I ever knew one. I walk, I run in the direction of my dreams. Things change along the way, people change, I change, the world changes, even my dreams change. I don’t have a place to arrive, I just keep doing what I know how to do, the best that I can do it. I’ll probably end up a deluded geriatric in a wheelchair wearing a cape and tights, imagining my own flight out of this world, but of course with a young girl in my arms.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWayI CanEndsDreamRunningYoungGirlCoursesCan DoMy OwnWalksKnow HowThis WorldArmsFlightChanging The WorldDestinationThings ChangeDo The BestI Can Do ItDeludedCapesWheelchairsTights Author:Shahrukh Khan
“I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.” ThinkingDangerousArmsBandQueensLengthTribute Author:Brian May
“I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.” PeopleThinkingHeartPainGoneBrokenArmsRelateExcruciating Pain Author:Christie Brinkley
“If you're over 60, arms are not pretty, so I think you should stay covered up. But wear what's appropriate for what you're doing, how you live, and what your lifestyle is.” IfsThinkingShouldArmsLifestyleAppropriateCoveredNot PrettyCovered Up Author:Iris Apfel
“I want you to think back to when you were a kid. Remember the day you learned you could burn ants with a magnifying glass? Oh, what a great day that was! You got to be God. You decided who lived, who died. I must've burned ants for an hour, just laughing. Then I saw one on my arm. Let me tell you something, when you burn yourself with a magnifying glass, you're on your own. You can't even tell your mom, because she gives that face, Oh, he is that stupid.” ThinkingWantGivingKidsRememberFacesHoursLaughingSawsStupidArmsMomDecidedLet MeDiedGlassesBurnedI Want YouAntsYour MomGreat DayMagnifyingMagnifying Glass Author:Bill Engvall
“Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connexions they have found worth marketing, in the lifetimes of many generation; these surely are likely to be more numerous, more sound, since they have stood up to the long test of thee survival of the fittest, and more subtle, at least in all ordinary and reasonably practical matters, than any that you or I are likely to think up in our arm-chairs of an afternoon-the most favoured alternative method.” ThinkingMenLongMatterFoundSoundCommonGenerationsArmsSurvivalOrdinaryTestsMethodLifetimeMarketingDrawingPracticalsTheeAlternativesDistinctionSubtleChairsAfternoonStood UpSurvival Of The FittestConnexion Author:J. L. Austin
“It's hard to say. Whenever you play with a group of people for a long time it influences the way that you play with others. They were all very defining in their own way and all affected the band in one way or another. I don't think they are so obvious in the music. The fact is that The Lawrence Arms is the culmination of a long search of trying to find people who play well as a unit.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingWellsLongHardPlayFactsGroupsInfluenceArmsBandLong TimeObviousOne WayAffectedUnitsDefiningCulmination Author:Chris McCaughan
“I think it's a huge mistake. I think regime change in Syria, and this is what - I've been saying this for several years now. In 2013 when we first went in, I said, you are going to give arms to the allies of al Qaida, to radical jihadists? That's crazy.” ThinkingGivingYearsFirstsSaidMistakeCrazyHugeArmsRadicalAlsAlliesRegimesSyriaRegime Change Author:Rand Paul
“I'd make banks more accountable. I think they should separate totally the personal banking arm with whatever else they are playing around with.” ThinkingShouldArmsBankingPlaying Around Author:Anne Robinson
“Services were held today for Ken Lay - convicted thief and crook Ken Lay.They folded his arms across his chest and sowed his sleeves together so he couldn't put his hands in anyone's pockets when they walked by. You know when they say in a eulogy, "You're all richer for having known him." I don't think they're going to hear that.” ThinkingKnowsHandsTodayTogetherKnownArmsLaysPocketsChestsThievesSleevesEulogyCrooks Author:Jay Leno
“I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feeling of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.” PeopleThinkingShouldFeelingsTurnsOpportunityBabyArmsNew Baby Author:Erin McKean
“Think of the great spirits of the last 50 years: Ghandi killed, not by a Pakistani Muslim, but one of his own Hindus, who hated him because he wanted India for the Muslims, the Sikhs, for everybody; Sadat, killed by the organization that Mr. bin Laden's No. 2 heads now, not by an Israeli, but by an Egyptian. My friend Yitzhak Rabin -- after a lifetime defending Israel, killed -- not by a Palestinian terrorist, but an angry Israeli because he wanted to lay down arms and take up peace... Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.” PeopleThinkingYearsWantedLastsSpiritHumanityArmsMy FriendsHatredOrganizationIndiaAngryLaysLifetimeIsraelTerroristDefinedHatedPalestinianIsraeliFanaticsBin LadenEgyptianGreat SpiritSadat Author:William J. Clinton
“I'm also a sucker for a view. Take me to a high place where I can see the landscape or the stars or the whole city, and I'm putty, I'm melting in your arms. Then I think having a romantic night, getting a little dressed up, but don't kill yourself trying to force the romance. A bunch of little subtle changes that will make the day more special will amount to a big awesome day in your memory. I like little breadcrumbs along the way. Draw it out!” ThinkingWayTryingLittlesI CanWholeBigsRomanceNightForceStarsMemoriesViewsCitiesSpecialArmsAmountDrawsBunchLandscapeSubtleTake MeOur MemoriesMeltingSuckerDressed UpKilling YourselfHigh Places Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“I glean a few times a week, and it's all about the subject line. I look for the lyrical, "Billowy Red Scarf Girl" or the funny, "Hipster Chick Who Passed Gas," the unintentionally funny, "Looking for the Hot Girl in Pink Dress," ones that immediately suggest images, "Furry Arms Under a Yellow Umbrella," or the plain odd, "Seeking Girl Who Bit Me Twice..." I don't think I've ever abandoned one... the images usually arrive fully formed in my head as soon as I read the message, and I decide whether to draw it or not.” ThinkingLooksGirlBitsLinesWeekSubjectsArmsMessagesDrawsRedHotDressesSeekingOddGasYellowAbandonedChicksUmbrellaLyricalHipsterScarvesFurryHot Girl Author:Sophie Blackall
“I had a guy at the Groucho bar clawing at my arm nearly in tears saying that until he saw The Departed he thought Americans were the ones on TV. I didn't know you had accents. I didn't know you had a class system. I didn't know you were like us. To which the answer is, probably only where I grew up, but while we're at it don't watch television and think it's the United States of America.” ThinkingKnowsStatesAmericaGuyAnswersUnitedClassWatchesUnited StatesSawsTelevisionTearsTvsArmsGrewGrew UpBarsAccentsUnited States Of AmericaDepartedClass System Author:William Monahan
“When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law.” PeopleThinkingMenLawBlackArmsOughtGunBearing ArmsPro Gun Author:Stanley Nelson Jr.
“What happened in the 80's was that all the men died of AIDS. That was a particularly depressing time because so many people passed away and it was a very desperate and lonely time, so I think a lot of people felt that we were somehow, unreceived. Not only by the disease but also by the public image of the disease. It really gave homophobia a real shot in the arm and changed the way people viewed gays, queers. It became an entirely different atmosphere.” PeopleThinkingMenWayDifferentRealFeltHappenedChangedHe ManArmsGayDiseaseShotsLonelyDiedAidsAtmosphereDesperateDepressingHomophobiaPassed AwayPublic Image Author:Margaret Cho
“The future is sending back good wishes and waiting with open arms.” ThinkingWishWaitingPositive ThinkingArmsOpen ArmsGood Wishes Author:Kobi Yamada
“When I was secretary of state, I had to be responsible for getting a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia through the Senate. We needed, I think, 13 Republican votes to get to 67. I started working in the summer making just endless phone calls, meetings, bringing experts to talk to Republicans, and then we finally got it done at the end of the year 2010. So I'm excited to roll up my sleeves and get into the business of solving problems and making progress together.” ThinkingYearsEndsStatesDoneProblemTogetherProgressArmsNeededRepublicanSummerVoteResponsibleMeetingsPhonesExcitedNuclearRussiaEndlessExpertsCall MeSenateProblem SolvingSecretarySleevesReductionTreatiesBeing ResponsiblePhone CallsNuclear Arms Author:Hillary Clinton
“If you start thinking about who's going to read it [you're writing], or what grade will you get, or is it going to win that award, or are you going to get into this graduate program, you're blocking the light, and the light is that guidance and love we get when we open up our hearts and are guided by our higher selves, or God, or the Buddha Lupe [Buddha and the Virgin of Guadalupe fused together, as they are in the tattoo on Sandra's right arm], or whatever you believe in, or love.” IfsThinkingWritingBelieveHeartSelfLightTogetherWinningArmsHigherProgramAnd LoveBlockGuidanceGradesAwardsGraduatesTattooVirginsHigher SelfGuadalupe Author:Sandra Cisneros
“For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a strong arm really, and so that one core theme.” ThinkingNeedsStrongDarknessCrimeArmsTrumpRepublicanSpeechCoreThemeConventionsStrong Arms Author:David Brooks
“Now I've got that [life is a journey not a destination] tattooed on my arm because it just reminds me of that time, and I think it's just an amazing quote.” ThinkingLife IsJourneyArmsDestinationTattooedLife Is A Journey Author:John Newman
“I think one of the things that I took from Mel [Bochner] specifically was his ability to look at oneself and one's relationship to the history of art and the practice of art at arm's length, the ability to sort of clinically and coldly remove oneself from the picture and to see it simply as a set of rules, habits, systems, moving parts.” ThinkingLooksArtMovingAbilityPracticeArmsHabitOneselfRemoveLengthMoving Parts Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I wouldn't take up arms. I think that might be a little extreme.” ThinkingLittlesMightArmsExtremes Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think it's too late. I think that there's been too much. This all started with the red line, walking away from it. The inability to arm the legitimate [Bashar] Assad opposition.” ThinkingLinesToo MuchArmsWalkingLateRedOppositionToo LateInabilityWalking AwayAssadRed Lines Author:John Kasich
“I do think that this whole area of cyber is something that at an international level we have to work on and develop frameworks and international norms so that we don't see a cyber arms race.” ThinkingWholeLevelsRaceArmsAreasInternationalNormFrameworkCyberArms Race Author:Barack Obama
“I am thinking of George Michael's family, friends and fans. He was so loved and I hope he knew it because the sadness today is beyond words. Devastating. What a beautiful voice he had and his music will live on as a testament to his talent. I can't believe he is gone. I hope the Buddha will hold him in his arms. NMRK.” ThinkingBelieveI CanTodayBeautifulVoiceGoneSadnessFansTalentArmsTestamentFamily FriendsBeautiful Voice Author:Boy George
“I think it is an imperfect arms control agreement. It's not a friendship treaty. But when America gives her word, we have to live up to it and work with our allies.” ThinkingGivingAmericaArmsAgreementAlliesImperfectTreaties Author:John Lewis
“I think it's yet to be seen how that is going to shape up. But I can tell we all know that President-elect [Donald] Trump doesn't like the Iran deal, thinks it's a terrible document, thinks it will create a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, which it already is beginning to do.” ThinkingKnowsI CanPresidentDealsRaceMiddleArmsTrumpTerribleShapesEastNuclearIranMiddle EastDocumentsArms RaceNuclear ArmsNuclear Arms Race Author:Reince Priebus
“I think it's reasonable that the government, when it has a warrant from a court, when it's exposed to scrutiny by a legal process that would be upheld, not just nationally, but internationally as a reliable and robust standard rights protection, they can enjoy certain powers. This is no different from having the police able to get a warrant to go and search your house, to kick at your door because they think you're an arms dealer or something like that. There needs to be a process involved, it needs to be public, and it needs to be challengeable in court at all times.” ThinkingNeedsDifferentGovernmentWould BeAbleCertainHouseProcessEnjoyRightsDoorsArmsInvolvedStandardsPoliceCourtProtectionAll TimeKicksReasonableExposedDealerScrutinyRobustWarrants Author:Edward Snowden
“I think people should have the right to bear arms, but they should be limited as to what kinds of guns they can have.” PeopleThinkingShouldKindArmsBearsGunShould HaveRight To Bear Arms Author:Jim Jarmusch
“The Iranian government is the government that supplied the arms on the Karin-A to the Palestinian Authority several years ago, they are the world's largest central banker for terrorism, if they thought it was in their interest to give a terrorist group a nuclear weapon to use against America or against Israel, I don't think they'd hesitate.” IfsThinkingWorldGivingYearsUseGovernmentAmericaInterestGroupsArmsAuthorityWeaponsYears AgoIsraelTerrorismNuclearTerroristNuclear WeaponsPalestinianBankersIranianTerrorist Groups Author:John Bolton
“The more success [Donald] Trump has, the greater the energy poured into opposing him is gonna be. If you are thinking that at some point in these next four years that the opposition to Trump is going to lay down arms, so to speak, and join him, that's never gonna happen.” IfsThinkingYearsHappensNextEnergySpeakGreaterFourArmsTrumpLaysOppositionFour YearsOpposing Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I know if I told you what God looked like and felt like then I'd be telling you a story. I just think we don't know. God manifests himself, herself or itself in a way that we need it, in a way that we can grab a hold of and a way that we can put our arms around.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayNeedsStoriesFeltArmsKnowing God Author:Tim McGraw
“I had no clue what anyone was talking about like, you know I don't think I, I don't think any of the depictions of sex were more to me than just like an image of two people's arms rubbing together [when I was eight], I just had no clue.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTwoTogetherSexTalkingLike YouArmsEightClueDepiction Author:Lena Dunham
“I've always been interested in miracles, or the miraculous of the unexplained. I don't scoff at what makes people believe or want to believe. I think I understand the tremendous attraction of the mysteries of the church to the same degree that I understand and appreciate the frustration people feel, especially believers, with the human rule-making arm of the church, with the not-miraculous part of the church - any church.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsBelieveHumansChurchMysteryArmsDegreesAppreciateMiracleAttractionBelieverFrustrationMiraculousUnexplained Author:John Irving
“The Foreign Office is a very important arm of the British state and I think Britain has a fantastic diplomatic service. We are the only country in the world spending 2% of our national income on defence and 0.7% of our national income on aid. We are the only country in the world doing both of those things.” ThinkingWorldImportantCountryStatesArmsOfficeBritishSpendingAidsIncomeFantasticBritainDefenceDiplomatic Author:George Osborne
“In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.” IfsThinkingYearsSpiritArmsPeriodsAgreementCarterDetente Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick
“If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, 'That's not really what we mean when we say bear arms.'” IfsThinkingKnowsMeanFatherArmsBearsBallsFoundingCrystalsPistolsCrystal BallGlocks Author:Michael Moore
“And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs.” ThinkingCoursesArmsEnglandResolutionEstablishmentIsraeliEnglishmenUnderdogPartitionEmbargo Author:Shimon Peres
“You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself.” ThinkingBodyAnimalRaceArmsDependsPlantBunchEcosystemsArms Race Author:Steven Pinker
“Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things, like the old guys in 'The Muppets,' just throwing out comments all the time, whereas there are other people on the ground really trying to affect things and improve their lives and the lives of other people. I think it's noble and I think it's cool.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindGuyArmsNobleCommentThrowingCynicismLives Of OthersFoldingOld GuysMuppetStepping Back Author:Josh Radnor
“When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantLifeKindFunnyLife IsArmsDistanceBad ThingsLife Is ShortHeartedTactFaint Hearted Author:Debra Winger
“There's a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You're not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool. It's a lot more complicated and sophisticated. You also have to deal with the connection of the whole film, so when I choreograph, I think of the movement itself, the camera angles, the characters.” ThinkingLooksWholeCharacterBodyFilmDealsMovementArmsConnectionsCamerasLegsComplicatedFlyingSophisticatedAngleCamera Angles Author:Donnie Yen
“I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.” ThinkingWorldInspirationalFeelsI CanDreamFacesGreaterThis WorldArmsGravesVillageYour FaceOur LoveRelatableInterruptions Author:Franz Kafka
“since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry --the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for eachother: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis” ThinkingWorldFirstsFeelingsPayAttentionBrainLaughingFateBloodCryFlowerArmsFoolKissingSpringGesturesSwearParagraphEyelidsSyntaxParenthesesLeaning Back Author:e. e. cummings
“I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have made me any happier. It was like scratching when you have chicken pox. You think it's going to help, but the itch moves over, and then moves over again. My itch suddenly felt miles away, and I couldn't have reached it with the longest arms in the world. Realizing that made me scared that I was going to be itchy forever, and I didn't want that.” ThinkingWorldWantMadeStillsHelpingMovingFeltRealizingForeverArmsScaredMilesExplanationChickensMiles AwayPoxItchy Author:Nick Hornby
“Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.” ThinkingLyingWomenSecretWonderStepsFashionIdentityArmsModelsBuiltLipsSizeSuitsHipsCutePhenomenalStrideCurlsPretty WomanPhenomenal WomanTelling LiesFashion Model Author:Maya Angelou
“Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair's messed, you're out of breath, and you didn't throw up.” ThinkingEndsSometimesLife IsBehindsFrontsYouthHairArmsDoctorsBreathsBarsMaturityPassagesScreamAdulthoodTicketsSlapEnd Of Life Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“He takes her in his arms He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you But he thinks this is a lie, so he says in the end You're dead, nothing can hurt you which seems to him a more promising beginning, more true.” ThinkingWantEndsSeemsLyingHurtLove YouArmsSay I Love You Author:Louise Glück