Body Quotes - Page 12

• Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's breath leaves his body, the soul flops out like a chicken's head and flies off into space to find a lodgment where there [are] harps and haloes. Too much for me.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Ideas

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• I'm still going to enjoy my life off the pitch and I don't think that has interfered with my life on it. In still playing, my body does not allow me to do some of the stuff I did before. The reality is I can't do the two. But I will still go out for a meal and a glass of wine and smoke a cigarette if I feel like it.

  Russell Latapy

  Wine, Reality, Thinking

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• I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

  Don Henley

  Singing, Used, Spine

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

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• True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as I am now realizing it: I am all that I see, I am an intersubjective field, not despite my body and historical situation, but, on the contrary, by being this body and this situation, and through them, all the rest.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Reflection, Historical, Phenomenology

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Thomas Baldwin (2004). “Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings”, p.228, Psychology Press

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• Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.

  Divine

  Jesus, Father, Son

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• Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

  Luis Alberto Urrea

  Yesterday, Alive, Today

  Luis Alberto Urrea (2006). “The Hummingbird's Daughter: A Novel”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where the aching longing to be somewhere else, out of this city, out of this country, out of this body and out of this life, is kept at bay.

  Christos Tsiolkas

  Country, Song, Play

  Christos Tsiolkas (1995). “Loaded”, Random House Australia

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• To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

  Donna Woolfolk Cross

  Pride, Independence, Surrender

  Donna Woolfolk Cross (2009). “Pope Joan: A Novel”, p.64, Broadway Books

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• The ordinary people will consider it lack of simplicity to harmonize all the changes throughout ten thousand years. With a tired body and a frightened mind, they toil to avoid this and to take that. The sage alone has no prejudice. He therefore proceeds with utter simplicity and becomes one with transformation and always roams in the realm of unity.

  Guo Xiang

  Change, Tired, Years

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• God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.

  Vikas Swarup

  Machines, Obsolescence, Made

  Vikas Swarup (2013). “The Accidental Apprentice”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I’m a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they’re mine, so who cares.

  Rachel Kushner

  Book, Reading, Home

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• So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.

  Catullus

  Girl, Flower, Boys

  "Delphi Complete Works of Catullus".

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• The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black,
  While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.
  “If oxen and horses and lions had hands and were able to draw with their hands and do the same things as men, horses would draw the shapes of gods to look like horses and oxen would draw them to look like oxen, and each would make the gods' bodies have the same shape as they themselves had.

  Xenophanes

  Horse, Eye, Men

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• Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors.

  Tom Kelley

  Play, Innovation, Culture

  Tom Kelley (2016). “The Art Of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm”, p.296, Profile Books

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• When I get involved, I give it my heart,
  I mean my mind, my soul, my body: I mean every part.
  But if it doesn't work out, yo, it just doesn't.
  It wasn't meant to be, you know, it just wasn't.

  MC Lyte

  Rap, Mean, Heart

  Song: Paper Thin, Album: Lyte as a Rock

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• The business of beauty isn't a natural model;
  It's built to be the opposite of the cultures we topple.
  These magazines got you caught in a hustle,
  Cause when you starve yourself, your body doesn't burn fat, it burns muscles.

  Immortal Technique

  Rap, Opposites, Hip Hop

  Song: Natural Beauty, Album: The Martyr, 2011

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• She's not impressed by your fancy car.
  She got a body so she's snotty and she don't care who you are.
  So don't get mad and dis her reputation
  Callin' her a floozy, any conversation.
  Mad grammar, backstabber, girls they wanna be her.
  But like Stevie Wonder, none of y'all can see her!

  Positive K

  Girl, Rap, Fancy Cars

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• The mind tricks the body, Body thinks the mind is crazy.

  Buckshot

  Crazy, Rap, Thinking

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• Politics is work. Hiphop is music. The idea that hiphop, because it makes the body feel good to move to it and it makes the soul feel good to hear out angry young black men, can be transmuted into changing the world is narcotic but nonsensical. Wherever hiphop is ever "going," we can be sure it will not be in a constructive direction, anymore than fashions in the color of cars. And it shouldn't "concern" us in the least.

  John H. McWhorter

  Fashion, Moving, Men

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• The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

  John F. Kennedy

  Creativity, Creative, Greek

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• Childbirth is a wonderful thing, but the reality is that it can dramatically change a woman's body. SUI occurs when the vaginal wall weakens and cannot provide adequate support to the urethra, thus causing leaking. The good news is that women with SUI have many different treatment options available to them.

  Dennis Miller

  Wall, Reality, Support

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• I hate to call it crossfire, what the rapid action battalion attributes for the custodial deaths, as there must be two parties in any such incident. But the reality is the just found body of the victim.

  Irene Khan

  Hate, Party, Reality

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• Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity. War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity. Peace begins in the soul and ends in the heart. War begins in the mind and ends in the body.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Peace, War, Heart

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• The exact process you use to build courage isn't important. What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles will atrophy if you don't regularly stress them, your courage will atrophy if you don't consistently challenge yourself to face down your fears. In the absence of this kind of conscious conditioning, you'll automatically become weak in both body and mind. If you aren't regularly exercising your courage, then you are strengthening your fear by default; there is no middle ground.

  Steve Pavlina

  Fear, Stress, Exercise

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• You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wind, House, Bereavement

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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