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He went away as if weights were tied to every limb that bore him from her. — Elizabeth Gaskell

For me, the safest place is out on a limb. — Shirley Maclaine

When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living. — Robin Quivers

Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb. — Claudette Colbert

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. — Robert Southey

My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, — Tahereh Mafi

Limb by limb and tooth by tooth,
Tearing up inside of me,
Every day, every hour, just wish that I ...
Was bulletproof — Radiohead

Even as he watched, a star moved above the limb of the planet, laser weapons winked their ruby morse — Dan Simmons

If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view. — Jodi Picoult

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

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. — Johnny Weissmuller

Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Neither man nor any animal can enjoy life to the full without taking some risks to life or limb. — Philip Brown

Dave was a confirmed serotonin junkie. Any day of the year, he chose a good book, a hot cupper, and air-conditioning over jeopardy to life and limb. — Dan Sofer

Don't you see how much you've fucked me up already? You're the only thing I want. I feel like a limb torn from you. Yours, yours, yours. "Don't — Alessandra Hazard

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 — Hillman Curtis

Irritation. The right lower limb was visible through a fresh cut in the plastic. — Kathy Reichs

I jounced the limb. — John Knowles

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. — Theodore Edgar McCarrick

Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree. — Stephen Jay Gould

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb. — Orrin Woodward

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. — Jimmy Carter

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. — Clive Barker

My hailstorm tore them limb from limb. — Mary Weber

Is it possible to love any human being without being torn limb from limb? — Cyril Connolly

Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest. — John Green

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. — Holly Near

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death? — William Wordsworth

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb. — Shirley Maclaine

The squirrel, jumping from limb to limb, trust his nature like no human ever could. — Garry Fitchett

They were the kind of words you read back and every lettered limb surprises you because you never knew you really felt those things the whole time. — Hannah Brencher

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. — Susane Colasanti

I swear it's true. If I lie to you, may I be changed into a sofa belonging to a fat family addicted to daytime TV and baked beans." (Fred to Jess) — Sue Limb

It stayed with him, like a part of him, like a birthmark, like a limb, it was on him, in him, him, his hymn: I had to do it for myself. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Virgo: Your teddy bear will reveal that he is pregnant and will require counseling. — Sue Limb

The thing is, you can cut off a couple passions and only focus on one, but after a while, you'll start to feel phantom limb pain. — Austin Kleon

You just never knew when a totally normal vampire errand would end in a bloodbath with severed-limb soap. — MaryJanice Davidson

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. — Jan Karon

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. — Saul Bellow

Fred just shrugged enigmatically. 'What? Just a load of girls going to the toilet? Personally I prefer wildlife videos. — Sue Limb

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you. — Jodi Picoult

Mourning is never really complete. The mappings of the old play remain in the cortex, like those mappings of the phantom limb. — Robert A Berezin

Is a tree any less beautiful because it has lost a limb? — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

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! — Picabo Street

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. — Freddie Mercury

If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body. — Alexander Hamilton

I'm not 20 years old any more. I'm not gonna go out on quite the limb I did. — Dan Fogelberg

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is. — Shirley Maclaine

We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting. — Richard L. Evans

The apple tree in the background, just barely visible, was stretching a single limb out to her, as if wanting to be in the photo with her. — Sarah Addison Allen

There were times, Sham felt, when the captains regretted there being only two types of limb they could lose to their obsessions. — China Mieville

I was coming together...
limb by limb, after being broken
for an infinity. — Sanober Khan

She suffered from the opposite of "phantom limb" syndrome; something essential appeared to be present, but it was not. — Amy Bloom

I learned how to do that from him, how to use a knife
gracefully like it's an extension of my limb.
I just use it differently. — J.M. Darhower

We risk life and limb and my princely good looks for a spoonful of sweet sock? — J.V. Hart

They were like amputees, only it was not a limb they were missing, but their very souls. — Diane Setterfield

The limb that a person most needs to purify is his tongue. — Abu Nuaym

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! — Muhammad Ali

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? — Frank Scully

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another. — George Herbert

Painted into a corner, caught in a cul-de-sac, out on that final last-chance limb, life scrabbles around, searching for a new way out. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

Your precocity delighted everyone who met you even when you were behaving like a limb of Satan. — Mary Jo Putney

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away — Sappho

Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver. — Chuck Pfarrer

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits — Samuel Johnson

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

And for two weeks I was banged up with a Hobbit who only spoke Elvish," said Jess. — Sue Limb

His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him! — Richard Harris Barham

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. — George Gordon Byron

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. — Will Rogers

Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit. — William Shakespeare

out on a limb to help me and I don't — Tara Sivec

Cara communicates only through a series of grunts, inching her way, limb by limb, toward coffee. — Veronica Roth

Useless, idle, exploitative male chauvinist drone! — Sue Limb

Want to go to West Virginia and risk life and limb with me?"
Zane smirked and gave a single nod. "Sounds like fun. — Abigail Roux

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. — Joe R. Lansdale

LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman. — Ambrose Bierce

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. — Charlie Manuel

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. — Nostradamus

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb. — Benjamin Rush

If you are willing to go out on a limb, the tree of life holds endless possibilities. — Angel Sharum

But there are a few people in your life who become so much a part of you that it feels like you're missing a limb when they're gone. — Melanie Shankle

You're my phantom limb, Mouse. I keep looking for you. I forget. I feel stupid, Mouse. Haunt me, find me, come back from wherever you are. Be with me. — Audrey Niffenegger

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. — Derek Walcott