Body Quotes - Page 5

• It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

  David Bailey

  Drinking, Exercise, Dull

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• There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

  Erma Bombeck

  Want, Taught, Figures

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.196, Open Road Media

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• Never order food in excess of your body weight.

  Erma Bombeck

  Badass, Body Weight, Order

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• The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

  Warren Buffett

  Teacher, People, Degrees

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• The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Health, Science, Always Trying

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• If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Fire, Reading Poetry

  Quoted in Martha Bianchi, Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1924)

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• Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Flower, Bud, Guarantees

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.390, e-artnow

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• A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Determination, Optimistic

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Men, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Noble, May

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Sacrifice, Temples

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• If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Yield, Talking, People

  Autobiography (1821)

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• Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspiring, Education, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.

  Christian Louboutin

  Moving, Shoes, Design

  "The GQA: Sole Talk with Christian Louboutin". Interview with Matt Sebra, www.gq.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

  H. L. Mencken

  Work, Temptation, Force

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• Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Sex, Soul

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• My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.

  Elvis Presley

  Movement, Legs

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• No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Groups, Should

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.84, Best Books on

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• Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Cancer, Cutting

  Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Thwing (1919). “Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics”

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• Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Perfection, Simplicity, Add

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. III), 1939.

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• Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivational Sports, Workout, Stress

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivational Sports, Athlete, Used

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.

  Mike Tyson

  Talking, Boxing, Guy

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• For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do - they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

  John Updike

  Sex, Glowing, Males

  "The Female Body". Michigan Quarterly Review, 1990.

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• When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

  Steven Wright

  Death, Fun, Science

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