Body Quotes - Page 29

• Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Bravery, Soul, Quality

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.69, Rajpal & Sons

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• The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.

  Henri Matisse

  Beauty, Feelings, Naked

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• There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.

  Robert Henri

  Beauty, Beautiful, Law

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• You ever go up to the tee and say, 'Don't hit it left, don't hit it right'? That's your conscious mind. My body knows how to play golf. I've trained it to do that. It's just a matter of keeping my conscious mind out of it.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Play, Mind

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• The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.

  Alison Gopnik

  Real, Water, Brain

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• To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Suffering, Age, Treason

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “Words of Radiance: Book Two of the Stormlight Archive”, p.747, Tor Books

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• The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand is no less a hand for being part of a larger whole, an entire body. The foot is not diminished in its freedom to be a foot by being part of a body which also contains eyes and ears. In fact, hands and feet are most free to be themselves when they coordinate properly with eyes, ears, and everything else. Cutting them off in an effort to make them truly free, truly themselves, would be truly disastrous.

  N. T. Wright

  Eye, Cutting, Hands

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• We can glimpse it in the book of Acts: the method of the kingdom will match the message of the kingdom. The kingdom…goes out into the world vulnerable, suffering, praising, praying, misunderstood, misjudged, vindicated, celebrating: always – as Paul puts it in one of his letters – bearing in the body the dying of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Book, Misunderstood

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• And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.

  Margaret Drabble

  Nice, Guilt, Flesh

  Margaret Drabble (2013). “A Summer Bird-Cage”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Real, Men, Depth

  Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843). “Works”, p.202

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• The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

  Ben Bradlee

  People, Politics, Politician

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• My mind's a machine gun, my body's the bullets and the audience is the target.

  GG Allin

  Gun, Mind, Target

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• My body is the rock and roll temple and my flesh, blood and body fluids are a communion to the people whether they like it or not

  GG Allin

  Rocks, Blood, Rock And Roll

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• I like my body so much more now since having my baby. It”s just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It”s been beautiful.

  Nelly

  Beautiful, Mother, Baby

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• The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Baseball, Fields

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body, I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!

  Joan of Arc

  Soul, Tears, Say Anything

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• Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for sacrifice. We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Christian, Heart, Sacrifice

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• There is little difference between the Zulu warrior who smeared bis body with lion's fat and the modern woman who dabs hers with expensive perfume. The one was trying to acquire the courage of the king of beasts, the other is attempting to acquire the irresistible sexuality of flowers. The underlying principle is the same.

  Tom Robbins

  Kings, Flower, Warrior

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• I can heal the scars on your body, but I can’t heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them

  Anne Bishop

  Soul, Scar, Heal

  Anne Bishop (2007). “Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2”, p.285, Penguin

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• Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words.

  Dionne Brand

  Moving, Book, Eye

  Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.227, Vintage Canada

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• Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. —The Dhammapada

  Thomas Ligotti

  Suffering, Looks, Puppets

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• Talk with your doctor, make healthy lifestyle choices and most importantly, know your body - as that can make all the difference in the world.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Doctors, Lifestyle Choices, Differences

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• For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This has been a heart-stopper, and surely one of our most thrilling results.

  Carolyn Porco

  Heart, Littles, Results

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• Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of knowledge constantly open to rejection or confirmation. In science, knowledge is fluid and certainty fleeting. That is at the heart of its limitations. It is also its greatest strength.

  Michael Shermer

  Heart, Science, Thinking

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.124, Macmillan

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• Remember that although bodies may pass away, the energy that connects you to a loved one is everlasting and can always be felt when you’re open to receiving it.

  Doreen Virtue

  Passing Away, Energy, Receiving

  Doreen Virtue, Charles Virtue (2009). “Signs from Above: Your Angels' Messages about Your Life Purpose, Relationships, Health, and More”, p.64, Hay House, Inc

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