Quotes about Limb

Have you been called to go out on a limb for God? You can bet it won't be easy. Limb-climbing has never been easy. Ask Joseph. Or, better yet, ask Jesus. He knows better than anyone the cost of hanging on a tree. Votes: 3

Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success. Votes: 3

For me, the safest place is out on a limb. Votes: 2

When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living. Votes: 2

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is. Votes: 2

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. Votes: 2

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb. Votes: 2

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. Votes: 2

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god. Votes: 2

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. Votes: 2

The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come. Votes: 2

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor. Votes: 2

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. Votes: 2

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf. Votes: 2

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb. Votes: 2

If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine. Votes: 2

We're living through a paradigm shift. People are going to look back at us and say, 'They used to cut people's legs off.' Then they'll just give an injection and the blood flow will be restored and the limb saved. Votes: 2

Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb. Votes: 2

Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable. Votes: 2

On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb. Votes: 2

I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes. Votes: 2

I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument. Votes: 2

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle. Votes: 2

Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence. Votes: 2

Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space. Votes: 2

As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless. Votes: 2

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. Votes: 2

I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully. Votes: 2

Defect in one's limb ruins a man. Votes: 0

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away Votes: 0

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! Votes: 0

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. Votes: 0

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another. Votes: 0

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb. Votes: 0

The limb that a person most needs to purify is his tongue. Votes: 0

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits Votes: 0

Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver. Votes: 0

LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman. Votes: 0

When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living Votes: 0

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you. Votes: 0

We risk life and limb and my princely good looks for a spoonful of sweet sock? Votes: 0

In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches. Votes: 0

I'm not 20 years old any more. I'm not gonna go out on quite the limb I did. Votes: 0

Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree. Votes: 0

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb. Votes: 0

Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest. Votes: 0

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. Votes: 0

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death? Votes: 0

I don't think this is an example of life and limb being at risk. I like the fact that our fans care. Votes: 0

I think we're out on a limb right now, hanging over a cliff, and we're trying to find a way to get back. Votes: 0

All I know is, if we don't eat soon I'm going to chew off a limb. And I can't guarentee it'll be mine. Votes: 0

Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb. Votes: 0

We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting. Votes: 0

The Pope is not putting himself out on a limb, he's putting himself up on the Cross, and that's what he's called to do. Votes: 0

I'd heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I'd always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not. Votes: 0

Things that are really offensive make me laugh because I like things that push the envelope, go out on a limb, and are bold. Votes: 0

You do need these people to go out on a limb for you, thinking you're right for a role rather than having box office numbers. Votes: 0

Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on. Votes: 0

Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb. Votes: 0

Be prepared to reinvent yourself. Be prepared to go out on a limb occasionally, and be prepared to do the things that you feel strongly about Votes: 0

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb. Votes: 0

The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling. Votes: 0

Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof. Votes: 0

The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum: Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.] Votes: 0

The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth. Votes: 0

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor Votes: 0

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under. Votes: 0

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. Votes: 0

A monster lies in wait in me,a stew of wounds and misery.But fiercer still in life and limb,the me that lies in wait in him Votes: 0

It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet. Votes: 0

There's lots of opportunities out there in life, but if you never put yourself out on a limb and take chances you'll never dare to be great at anything. Votes: 0

I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic musical since Blue Angel. Votes: 0

Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it. Votes: 0

A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind. Votes: 0

It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin lies down with the limb. Votes: 0

Follow your dreams as long as you live! Never be afraid to go out on the limb to live up to your expectations. Always do things your way and Have Fun! Votes: 0

There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods. Votes: 0

There isn't much point in the whole 'celebrity' nonsense unless one is prepared to go out on a limb and, one hopes, speak up for some under-represented section of the community. Votes: 0

Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame; but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world. Votes: 0

It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head. Votes: 0

‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again. Votes: 0

Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a great thing to do in my book. Votes: 0

I'm not afraid to go out on a limb, style-wise or with lyrics. I don't ever want to be afraid to cut those types of songs because radio might not play it. Votes: 0

The house, while sound in wind and limb, was described as being of 'no character.' We didn't think then that it had anything but character, rather sinister perhaps, but definitely character. Votes: 0

The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries. Votes: 0

I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult. Votes: 0

A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation. Votes: 0

Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just... Votes: 0

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance. Votes: 0

The injured runner is like a recent amputee victim, continually forgetting that the limb isn't there, crestfallen at each realization. What we need more than anything is a suitable prosthetic and an attitude adjustment. Votes: 0

Once Addie let someone in, she was impossible to forget. There was something about her that crawled inside a person and built a nice comfy home there, her goodness expanding until it filled every limb. Votes: 0