Body Quotes - Page 19

• All that I would like to be is human, having a share
  in a civilized, articulate and well-adjusted
  community where the mind is given its due
  but the body is not distrusted

  Louis MacNeice

  Community, Mind, Share

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Autumn Journal”, p.39, Faber & Faber

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• When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't

  Lucian Freud

  Artist, Giving, Choices

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• It is time to put up a love-swing!
  Tie the body and then tie the mind so that they
  swing between the arms of the Secret One you love,
  Bring the water that falls from the clouds to your eyes,
  and cover yourself inside entirely with the shadow of night.
  Bring your face up close to his ear,
  and then talk only about what you want deeply to happen.

  Kabir

  Fall, Eye, Night

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• There's a moon in my body, but I can't see it! A moon and a sun.
  A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can't hear it!

  Kabir

  Moon, Hands, Sun

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• My body gets weak without truth.

  Andrei Platonov

  Glitter, Weak

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• Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more characteristic, and the more marked and more violent the disease. We should imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic affliction with another supervening disease, and prescribe for the illness we wish to cure, especially if chronic, a drug with power to provoke another, artificial disease, as similar as possible, and the former disease will be cured: fight like with like.

  Samuel Hahnemann

  Fighting, Drug, Wish

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• The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the feeling and the felt, it defines their common edge. Contingency means common tangency: in it the world and the body intersect and caress each other. I do not wish to call the place in which I live a medium, I prefer to say that things mingle with each other and that I am no exception to that. I mix with the world which mixes with me. Skin intervenes between several things in the world and makes them mingle.

  Michel Serres

  Mean, Feelings, Wish

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• The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.

  William Harvey

  Heart, Foundation, Divinity

  William Harvey (1847). “The works of William Harvey, M.D.”, p.47

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• There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

  William Harvey

  Philosophy, Medicine, Perfect

  William Gilbert, Galileo Galilei, William Harvey (1984). “The Selected writings of William Gilbert, Galileo Galilei, William Harvey ; illustrated by Marc Yankus”

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• The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.

  A. V. Dicey

  Mean, Law, Principles

  "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.

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• Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.

  Noam Chomsky

  Compounds, Commandos, Dumped

  "Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death". www.guernicamag.com. May 6, 2011.

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• The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Literature, Lasts, Opinion

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• I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.

  Michael Connelly

  Beach, Real, Serial Killer

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• Please be careful of becoming so immersed and engrossed in pixels, texting, ear buds, Twittering, online social networking, and potentially addictive uses of media and the Internet that you fail to recognize the importance of your physical body and miss the richness of person-to-person communication. Beware of the digital displays and data in many forms of computer-mediated interaction that can displace the full range of physical capacity and experience.

  David A. Bednar

  Communication, Media, Data

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• You have the potential to become anything to which you set your mind. You have a mind and a body and a spirit. With these three working together, you can walk the high road that leads to achievement and happiness. But this will require effort and sacrifice and faith.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Sacrifice, Achievement, Effort

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• May I mention earrings and rings placed in other parts of the body. These are not manly. They are not attractive. You young men look better without them, and I believe you will feel better without them. As for the young women, you do not need to drape rings up and down your ears. One modest pair of earrings is sufficient.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Believe, Feel Better, Men

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• Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the lost, can we be surprised at a time when retributive punishments without an opportunity of probation are being increasingly abandoned in education and penal justice, that the idea not only of a lifelong, but even eternal punishment of body and soul, seems to many people absolutely monstrous.

  Hans Kung

  Jesus, Opportunity, Punishment

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• If love is sex
  we were in love.
  & if love outlasts
  the body, then
  I am you,
  it is fair to say.

  Jesse Lee Kercheval

  Sex, Love Is, Fairs

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• Would you look at that body language? Legs crossed towards each other. That is an unequivocal sex invite.

  Cher

  Sex, Clueless, Looks

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• I feel the sexiest when I'm by myself, walking around nude. I have this new obsession with nudity, it's really weird. It may sound weird, but I just really love embracing the body.

  Ciara

  Sound, May, Obsession

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• Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear?

  Hanif Kureishi

  Sex, Love Is, Punishment

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “Something to Tell You: A Novel”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink. And, even if someone is attracted to a person of the same sex, he or she still makes a choice to engage in sexual activity with someone of the same gender.

  Rick Perry

  Sex, Choices, Alcohol

  "Rick Perry’s Lesser-Known First Book Could Be A Distraction From Economy-Centered Message" By Jon Ward, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 19, 2011.

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• The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, grooms them for docility. A mind can be cramped just as a body may be, and a Muslim veil blinkers both your vision and your destiny. It is the mark of a kind of apartheid, not the domination of a race but of a sex.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Sex, Destiny, Men

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2011). “Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

  Egon Schiele

  Philosophy, Flower, Medicine

  Erwin Mitsch, Egon Schiele (1988). “The art of Egon Schiele”

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• The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Atheist, Wall, Men

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