Body Quotes - Page 8

• Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Country, Money, Women

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• In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly from the bodies of our black children.

  Harry Belafonte

  Children, Gun, Blood

  Harry Belafonte’s Speech Accepting NAACP Spingarn Medal, www.democracynow.org. February 18, 2013.

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• Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Men, Practice, People

  "An Additional Number of Letters to the Republican". Letters by the Federal Farmer (pseudonym of Richard Henry Lee), Letter XVIII, teachingamericanhistory.org. January 25, 1988.

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• BEAUTY will result from the form and correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with regard to each other, and of these again to the whole; that the structure may appear an entire and compleat body, wherein each member agrees with the other, and all necessary to compose what you intend to form.

  Andrea Palladio

  Beauty, Respect, May

  "The Four Books of Architecture".

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• A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.

  Nelson Mandela

  Distance, Winning, People

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Aug 04, 2013

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• A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.

  Alexander Lowen

  Life, Freedom, Moving

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

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• Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of gratitude. I now allow this gratitude to fill my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being. This gratitude radiates out from me in all directions, touching everything in my world, and returns to me as more to be grateful for. The more gratitude I feel, the more I am aware that the supply is endless.

  Louise Hay

  Life, Motivational, Gratitude

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Nov 23, 2011

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• If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.

  Jesse Stuart

  Teacher, Heart, Kentucky

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• But truly, women are amazing. Think about it this way: a woman can grow a baby inside her body. Then a woman can deliver the baby through her body. Then, by some miracle, a woman can feed a baby with her body. When you compare that to the male’s contribution to life, it’s kind of embarrassing, really.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Baby, Women

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• I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique which will correct physical faults and prepare a dancer for any type of dancing he may wish to follow; a technique having all the basic movements which govern the actions of the body; combined with a knowledge of the origin of movement and a sense of artistic design.

  Lester Horton

  Dance, Knowledge, Exercise

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• The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience.

  Doris Humphrey

  Dance, Stupid, Thinking

  Doris Humphrey (1959). “The art of making dances”

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• I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

  Joy Harjo

  Funny, Humorous, Musician

  Joy Harjo (1990). “In Mad Love and War”, p.21, Wesleyan University Press

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• Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies - for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the text - as into the world and into history - by her own movement.

  Helene Cixous

  Women, Writing, Self

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• I mopped the floor with my hairThe reason I’m so interested in taking my body to those extreme places is that that’s a place where I learn, where I feel most in my body. I’m really interested in the repetition, the discipline, and what happens to me psychologically when I put my body to that extreme place.

  Janine Antoni

  Learning, Hair, Discipline

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• I have two secret weapons -- my legs, my arms and my brain.

  Michael Vick

  Two, Secret, Brain

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• Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or a backlight. I'm able to see those colors clearly.

  Haruki Murakami

  Unique, Color, Personality

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• It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.

  Victoria Pendleton

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Believe

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• In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.

  Geeta Iyengar

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Yoga

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• Send out love and harmony, put your mind and body in a peaceful place, and then allow the universe to work in the perfect way that it knows how.

  Wayne Dyer

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 17, 2015

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• Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Love, Islamic, Knowledge

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• Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

  Mary Karr

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Book

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2011.

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• Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Reading, Men

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 10, 2013

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• Be BLESSED-spirit, soul, body and financially.

  Kenneth Copeland

  God, Faith, Christian

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• The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality!

  Mordechai Anielewicz

  Inspirational, War, Struggle

  Letter to Yitzhak Cukierman, April 23, 1943.

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• Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

  George Frideric Handel

  Music, God, Writing

  Of the'Hallelujah Chorus' in his Messiah. Quoted in Romain Rolland Essays on Music (1948).

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