Body Quotes - Page 21

• Fervor is a fire that makes things boil and grow hot, just as fire causes water to boil. It is, properly speaking, charity on fire, and that is what you should have because a Daughter without Charity is like a body without a soul.

  St. Vincent

  Daughter, Fire, Should Have

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• It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right

  Lucy Stone

  Use, May, Littles

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• I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body

  Lucy Stone

  God, Time, Believe

  "Disappointment Is the Lot of Women". Speech. "History of Woman Suffrage". Book by Elizabeth Cady Stanton et al., Volume 1, 1881.

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• From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh

  Issey Miyake

  Moving, Clothes, Space

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• The white blouse can be light and floating, impeccable and austere, sumptuous and all-enveloping, tight and close-fitting. It rises up to frame the face. It sculpts the body by transforming itself into a second skin. Imputed with glamour and poetry, freedom and impetuousness, the prim white shirt turns out to have a thousand identities.

  Gianfranco Ferre

  Light, White, Skins

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• Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture

  Christopher Dawson

  Strong, Issues, Culture

  Christopher Dawson, Gerald J. Russello (1998). “Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)”, p.119, CUA Press

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• But the knowledge and love of our Divine Redeemer, of which we were the object from the first moment of His Incarnation, exceed all that the human intellect can hope to grasp. For hardly was He conceived in the womb of the Mother of God, when He began to enjoy the Beatific Vision, and in that vision all the members of His Mystical Body were continually and unceasingly present to Him, and He embraced them with His redeeming love

  Pope Pius XII

  Mother, Vision, And Love

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• This power becomes particularly irresistible when exercised by those who, because they hold and control money, are able also to govern credit and determine its allotment, for that reason supplying, so to speak, the lifeblood to the entire economic body, and grasping, as it were, in their hands the very soul of production, so that no one dare breathe against their will.

  Pope Pius XI

  Hands, Soul, Credit

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI)., Pope Pius XI. (1931). “On Social Reconstruction: Encyclical Letter”

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• Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me - When memory of the body awakens, and old desire again runs through the blood; when the lips and skin remember, and the hands feel as if they touch again.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Running, Memories, Blood

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “Return”

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• Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspirational, House, Care

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• Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive

  Les Paul

  Music, Thinking, Guitar

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• I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a neck for $80.00 - I slapped it together, put an old Gibson PAF in it and painted it up with the stripes

  Eddie Van Halen

  Music, Stripes, Together

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• The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with the intractable physical laws of her own body. And the more nature will punish her: 'Do not dare to be free! For your body does not belong to you.'

  Camille Paglia

  Struggle, Law, Identity

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.37, Canongate Books

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• I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.

  Adolfo Bioy Casares

  Believe, Ideas, Alive

  Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books

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• The Christian woman should remember that she cannot buy true attractiveness; that radiance which really shines forth in beauty is of the heart and spirit and not of the body.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Heart, Shining

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• John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.

  Andrew Jackson

  Nations, Your Body, Ifs

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• How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Dominion, Tentacles

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.3, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You know, my name .... comes from the word shomer, guardian, watcher. My ancestors were guardians of the ghetto wall in Chortkov. And I believe Hashem [Orthodox for God] actually gave me that name. One of my roles, very important in the United States senate, is to be a shomer - to be a or the shomer Yisrael. And I will continue to be that with every bone in my body.

  Charles Schumer

  Wall, Believe, Ghetto

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• I'd like to reach out to more women and different body types.

  Carolyn Murphy

  Body Types, Different, Reach Out

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• The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw over and over that my mind and body could be filled with desire and that no matter how intense the craving was it would always pass. I didn't have to satisfy every desire that arose in my mind. I began to understand impermanence through direct experience rather than just intellectual theory.

  Noah Levine

  Practice, Mind, Intellectual

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• There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.

  Eric Hoffer

  Country, Fashion, Song

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• Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

  Neal Barnard

  Food, Giving, Fuel

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• Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.

  Confucius

  Tea, Mind, Spirit

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• When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  People, Nerd, Democracy

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.22, Library of Alexandria

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• I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Baseball, Years

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