Belly Quotes - Page 11

• Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.

  Yisroel Salanter

  Helping Others, Men, People

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• I can't wait for the time when curves and a little belly fat will be sexy again!

  Shakira

  Sexy, Curves, Waiting

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• The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Teacher, Art, Eating

  "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, Prologue, 10,

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• I hate my stomach. It's impossible to get it flat, and the area around my belly button drives me crazy.

  Carmen Electra

  Hate, Crazy, Buttons

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• It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

  Michael Shermer

  Moving, Angel, Animal

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.141, Macmillan

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• Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt. We don't need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool's players keeps them motivated.

  Bill Shankly

  Team, Passion, Pride

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• The belly is the giver of genius.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Food, Genius, Giver

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• In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the dead page, suffocated signs full of muffled sound and faded glory, signifying absolutely nothing. And it is the nothing, the Mystery, the Emptiness alone that needs to be realized: not known but felt, not thought but breathed, not an object but an atmosphere, not a lesson but a life.

  Ken Wilber

  Lying, Book, Reality

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.141, Shambhala Publications

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• You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are bees!

  Hermann Hesse

  Angel, Sheep, Nine

  "Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse".

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• No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Girl, Kings, Men

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are devoured by different kinds of worms according as we are fat or thin? In fat corpses one species of maggot is found, the rhizophagus, while thin corpses are patronized only by the phora. The latter is evidently the aristocrat, the fastidious gourmet which turns up its nose at a heavy meal of copious breasts and juicy at bellies. Just think, there is no perfect equality, even in the manner in which we feed the worms.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Thinking, Dust, Perfect

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (1972). “L…-bas (Down There).”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial. Just take a big belly laugh. I have watched people laughing, and for a moment they look-and are-absolutely helpless. Vulnerability. You can be assaulted while you are laughing.

  Abe Burrows

  Taken, Feel Better, People

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• Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Travel, Heart, Mcdonalds

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Sage, Filling

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• I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

  Carol Vorderman

  Laughter, Medicine, Laughing

  "Carol Vorderman: I've piled on the pounds from partying" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. December 31, 2011.

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• With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.

  Owen Wister

  Gun, Always Smile

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• Good Luck Chuck, a comedy starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, opened today, and critics are saying it has all the belly laughs you’ve come to expect from Jessica Alba.

  Chelsea Handler

  Good Luck, Laughing, Today

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• The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.

  Matt Chandler

  Soul, Church, Action

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• Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

  Fred W. Friendly

  Pork, National Parks, Machines

  "Videoculture". Rushworth M. Kidder, Christian Science Monitor, June 10, 1985.

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• It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but intemperate in eating. Your belly is your God, your liver is your temple, your paunch is your altar, the cook is your priest, and the fat steam is your Holy Spirit; the seasonings and the sauces are your chrisms, and your belchings are your prophesizing...[such] a grossly- feeding Christian is akin to lions and wolves rather than God. Our Lord Jesus called Himself Truth and not habit.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Jesus, Drinking

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• I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation - that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno - I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

  Luis Bunuel

  Work, Pigs, Honor

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• Consider the ebb and flow of the tide. When waves come to strike the shore, they crest and fall, creating a sound. Your breath should follow the same pattern, absorbing the entire universe in your belly with each inhalation. Know that we all have access to four treasures: the energy of the sun and moon, the breath of heaven, the breath of earth, and the ebb and flow of the tide.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Fall, Moon, Ebb And Flow

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

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• I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.

  Alan Bradley

  Laughing, Belly Laughs

  Alan Bradley (2011). “A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.184, Delacorte Press

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• Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With a weapon in their hands. Cowards choose to do so on their bellies. Unarmed.

  David Gell

  Warrior, Gun, Hands

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• I am NOT a belly dancer. I have never been one, and never will be. What I do is not what Hollywood vulgarly calls 'belly dance', but it's art. I have traveled the world to prove that my dance is not a dance of the belly but a refined, artistic dance full of tradition, of dreaming and beauty. Oriental dance is primarily an expressive dance; in that resides the beauty.

  Nadia Gamel

  Dream, Art, Dancer

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