Human Body Quotes - Page 17

• Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)

  Walt Whitman

  Gay, Men, Body

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorporates the entire human body.

  Myron Uhlberg

  Beautiful, Expression, Hands

  Myron Uhlberg (2009). “Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love”, p.92, Bantam

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• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  Karen Abbott

  Country, Practice, Ideas

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• The only similarity between the car and the human body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the former you can send it back to its maker.

  Richard Asher

  Car, Design, Body

  A Sense of Asher p. 86. Pitman Medical, UK (1972)

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• Ours is not a dumb species. We have put a man on the moon. We have unlocked the secrets of the human genome. We have discovered how to take stem cells and coax them into becoming brain cells, heart muscle, liver tissue - any organ of the human body that needs repair. These are our miracles, and there are more. Yet we have not yet found a way to do the simplest things: To live in peace. To stop killing each other when we disagree. To distribute that which is good in life freely and fairly.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Heart, Moon, Men

  "A Revolution Is What's Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• I tried to change the conventional paradigm, for example, by insisting on the reality of mind-body interaction, by stressing the importance of natural therapies, by focusing attention on lifestyle issues, by looking at worthwhile aspects of alternative medicine. Many people have been threatened by that. Doctors especially tend to think that they know everything about the human body, and don't realize that medical education has really omitted many very important subjects.

  Andrew Weil

  Stress, Reality, Thinking

  "Dr. Andrew Weil: On Changing the Current Paradigm in Healthcare". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.

  William S. Burroughs

  Doe, Body, Destruction

  Source: realitystudio.org

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• To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Technology, Men, Thinking

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.73, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• I think of a movie as a human body. You can feel the pump of the heart and the blood going through the veins when you watch that scene.

  Sonia Braga

  Heart, Thinking, Blood

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Law, Miracle, Body

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When Bad Things Happen to Good People: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

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• We know that for the last 300 or 400 years, the size of human bodies is growing. Now what happened is that we suddenly, in history, have the backward process. We have these great Greek athletes, we have ultra-powerful Roman soldiers. You look at the size of the Roman soldier who has to carry all this ammunition. You're talking about 300,000 Arnold Schwartzeneggers.

  Garry Kasparov

  Powerful, Athlete, Talking

  Source: www.timothytaylor.ca

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• People act as if the internet will never die, that the Cloud will never die. In the face of that, much of human civilization, including our human bodies, seem so defective and mortal and constantly fading. Our lifespan is 80 years, 90 years if we're lucky, and that's a drop in the bucket compared to how long we think the internet will live.

  Virginia Heffernan

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I have been dealing with those types of complicated things and my scholastic background, so I think that helps me - my nutrition and my understanding of the human body, and the processes for recovery and proper dietary restrictions.

  Chris Algieri

  Recovery, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom.

  Germaine Greer

  Curves, Bosoms

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.

  Philip Pearlstein

  Expression, Healthy, Trying

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• A human body can think thoughts, play a piano, kill germs, remove toxins, make a baby all at once. Once it's doing that your biological rhythms are actually mirroring the symphony of the universe because you have circadian rhythms, seasonal rhythms, tidal rhythms you know they mirror everything that is happening in the whole universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Baby, Thinking, Mirrors

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What I'm against is a sport that rewards mass for the sake of mass to the exclusion of all other physical properties of the physique. In other words, there comes a point where, if you keep adding muscle mass, the human body loses its beauty, shape and form. That's what I'm against.

  Lee Labrada

  Sports, Bodybuilding, Shapes

  Interview with John Hansen, www.bodybuilding.com. August 10, 2014.

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• Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

  Avicenna

  Mean, Medicine, Body

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• As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Soul, Unity

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• When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes. Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms. There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.

  Alan Lightman

  Heart, People, Brain

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Dance for Two: Essays”, p.42, Pantheon

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• This is the highest honour of the Church, that, until He is united to us, the Son of God reckons himself in some measure imperfect. What consolation is it for us to learn, that, not until we are along with him, does he possess all his parts, or wish to be regarded as complete! Hence, in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, when the apostle discusses largely the metaphor of a human body, he includes under the single name of Christ the whole Church.

  John Calvin

  Son, Names, Church

  "Commentaries on the Epistles of Paul to the Galatians and Ephesians" by Jean Calvin, William Pringle, Edinburgh, (p. 218), 1854.

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• The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian epistemology and classical ideals produced forms of rationality, scientificity and objectivity that, though efficacious in the quest for truth and knowledge, prohibited the intelligibility and legitimacy of black equality. In fact, to "think" such an idea was to be deemed irrational, barbaric or mad.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Objectivity, Ideas

  "Prophesy Deliverance!". Book by Cornel West, 1982.

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• I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.

  Upton Sinclair

  Perfect, Body, Good Health

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Fasting Cure”, p.7, Youcanprint

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• The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the enormous variety and richness of overt human conduct, witness to the radical difference between the inside and the outside of the human body.

  Hannah Arendt

  Differences, Psychology, Body

  "The Life of the Mind" by Hannah Arendt, New York, Harcourt, (pp. 34-35), 1978.

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• Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Cinema, Looks, Body

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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