Body Quotes - Page 20

• The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

  Adrienne Rich

  Political, Feelings, Moments

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.29, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I do believe that a poem needs to remind the reader of his or her own humanity, of what they are, of what they're capable of. Awaken them, in a sense, to the fact that there's a world in front of their eyes, that they have a body, they're going to die, the sky is beautiful, it's fun to be in a grassy field when the sun is shining—those kinds of things.

  Charles Simic

  Beautiful, Fun, Believe

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• I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing, come home from the factory, the cafe. No career approaches in importance that of wife, homemaker, mother -- cooking meals, washing dishes, making beds for one's precious husband and children. Come home, wives, to your husbands. Make home a heaven for them. Come home, wives, to your children, born and unborn. Wrap the motherly cloak about you and, unembarrassed, help in a major role to create the bodies for the immortal souls who anxiously await.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Mother, Husband, Children

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• The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.

  H. G. Wells

  Writing, Thinking, Average

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.8611, Delphi Classics

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• Now the most comprehensive conception of this new world is of one politically, socially and economically united To this end a small but increasing body of people in the world set their faces and seek to direct their lives.

  H. G. Wells

  People, World, Faces

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• Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all of the above. a) it will keep your journalistic ‘muscle’ in practice. b) if you’re any good, you’ll get noticed. And bear in mind you can do these things at other places than conventional news organisations. Many businesses, NGOs, arts organisations, public bodies, universities, etc are now publishers of extremely high quality stuff. Good places to practise your craft before moving on.

  Alan Rusbridger

  Art, Moving, Writing

  "I am Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of the Guardian - the news org that broke the story of NSA surveillance of US citizens - AMAA", rebrn.com. July 31, 2013.

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• In this silence of the white Host, carried in the Monstrance, are all His words; there is His whole life given in offering to the Father for each of us; there is also the glory of the glorified body, which started with the Resurrection, and still continues in Heavenly union.

  Pope John Paul II

  Father, White, Offering

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• Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

  Christine de Pizan

  Women, Understanding, Men

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• There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a companion and never lie at his feet like a slave, and also that he should love her as his own flesh.

  Christine de Pizan

  Lying, Feet, Ribs

  Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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• Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating in moderation and being physically active (literally, having the energy to exercise) are not evidence of moral rectitude. Rather, they're the metabolic benefits of a body that's programmed to remain lean.

  Gary Taubes

  Exercise, Animal, Sloth

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• Women get consumed. Not surprising, considering the sheer amount of traffic a woman's body experiences. Tampons and speculums. Cocks, fingers, vibrators and more, between the legs, from behind, in the mouth.

  Gillian Flynn

  Legs, Mouths, Tampons

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.198, Broadway Books

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• The punishment – to the body, the brain, the spirit – a man must endure to become even a moderately good boxer is inconceivable to most of us whose idea of personal risk is largely ego-related or emotional.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Emotional, Ideas

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “On Boxing”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

  Robertson Davies

  People, Age, Technique

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• 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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• Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.

  Plotinus

  Lying, Earth

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• I love watching Rihanna in fashion. I like to see her take chances and risks. I like seeing Naomi Campbell in the forefront. They're both women who stand out and use their bodies as canvases to introduce this functional art to the world. They carry it in a way that is very inspiring.

  Erykah Badu

  Fashion, Art, Risk

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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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• False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.

  Guru Nanak

  Clothes

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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 secret art of inviting blessings.  The spiritual medicine of all diseases. Morning and night, join your hands in prayer and repeat these words out loud and in your heart for the improvement of body and mind.

  Mikao Usui

  Spiritual, Morning, Art

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• The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of true abandon, acts of largesse, of humor. As a gesture to the spirit, warriors bring out the best of themselves and silently offer it to the abstract.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Mean, Warrior, Movement

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• I definitely don't feel like I'm 71. I feel like I did when I was - between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind doesn't.

  Neil Diamond

  Mind, Age, Feels

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