Body Quotes - Page 39

• I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. And I think it's really madness to risk your body, risk your well-being and risk your happiness for money.

  John Moffitt

  Thinking, Risk, Madness

  "John Moffitt was unhappy, quits NFL". www.espn.com. November 7, 2013.

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• When body, breath, and mind work together in harmony to achieve a spiritual goal, that is yoga.

  Baba Hari Dass

  Spiritual, Yoga, Goal

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• It's awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you've really just met. You're strangers to each other's bodies and you're coming together for the first time in front of all these people.

  Sheryl Lee

  Clothes, People, Awkward

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

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• Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.

  Morris Kline

  Knowledge, Math, Logic

  Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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• This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the sun deserves to be styled the heart of the world. For it is by the heart's vigorous beat that the blood is moved, perfected, activated, and protected from injury and coagulation. The heart is the tutelary deity of the body, the basis of life, the source of all things, carrying out its function of nourishing, warming, and activating body as a whole. But we shall more fittingly speak of these matters when we consider the final cause of this kind of movement.

  William Harvey

  Heart, Blood, Finals

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• But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of a physician who shall minister to both soul and body at once, that is, to man. Now he falls between two stools.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Men, Soul And Body

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.257, Princeton University Press

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• It was frankly sort of confusing, the way everyone stared at our bodies exactly as they tried to erase the ideas of our bodies from our minds. We were supposed to get over ourselves but no one was supposed to get over us. The female body was our worst handicap and our best advantage - the surest means to success, the surest course to failure.

  Hilary Thayer Hamann

  Girl, Women, Mean

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• Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Animal, Vegetables, Four Elements

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• It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Break Up, Country, Lying

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.

  Alexander Lowen

  Powerful, Men, Goal

  Alexander Lowen (1994). “Bioenergetics”, Penguin Group USA

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• It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Together, World

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• I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

  Ornette Coleman

  Moving On, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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• The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be?

  Laozi

  Taoism, Reason, Distress

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• He who treasures his body as much as the world can care for the world.

  Laozi

  Taoism, World, Treasure

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• When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.

  Roberto Bolano

  Grief, Skulls, Broken

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• Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. 'I feel good here': the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice.

  Michel de Certeau

  Pain, Past, Practice

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.108, Univ of California Press

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• Train at the same pace day after day, week after week, year after year, and that's the kind of running the body adapts to. But break out of that comfort zone with a little speedwork now and then, and the body will learn to deal with the new demands.

  Don Kardong

  Running, Years, Demand

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• Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

  Jock Sturges

  Photography, Thinking, Artist

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• I can only express the hope that faith in the judicial system will never be diminished, and I am sure it will not, so long as we allow a review of the judicial processes that takes place here in some other tribunal where obviously undue influence cannot be brought to bear. As long as governments are wise enough to leave alone the rights of appeal to some superior body outside Singapore, then there must be a higher degree of confidence in the integrity of our judicial process. This is most important.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Wise, Integrity, Rights

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• Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.

  Michael Zaslow

  Dream, Neutrons, Muscles

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• There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.

  F. F. Bruce

  Ancient Literature, World, Wealth

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• Your body’s reaction to fear is the same whether you are faced with a physical threat or an emotional one.

  Rhonda Britten

  Emotional, Reactions, Threat

  Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living”, p.20, Penguin

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• When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

  Willard Wigan

  School, Kids, Skills

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• I've been in a Speedo half my life. So I am really comfortable with my body.

  Eric Shanteau

  Half, Speedos, Comfortable

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• Clarity of mind, body and spirit is the key to creativity.

  Dan Wakefield

  Creativity, Keys, Mind

  Dan Wakefield (2010). “Creating from the Spirit: A Path to Creative Power in Art and Life”, p.11, Beech River Books

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