Body Quotes - Page 33

• If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

  Misty Upham

  Beauty, Men, Humanity

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• A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Graduation, Philosophy, College

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• Skateboarding is a way to let your body control the mind.

  Shaun White

  Mind, Skateboarding, Way

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• Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; .... It shows us how small is man's body, how great his mind, since his intelligence can embrace the whole of this dazzling immensity, where his body is only an obscure point, and enjoy its silent harmony.

  Henri Poincare

  Men, Mind, Astronomy

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.473, Modern Library

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• At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.

  Hermann Maier

  Motivational, Pain, Athlete

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• Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.

  Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

  Political, Soul, Politics

  In Poynder 'Literary Extracts' (1844) vol. 1 (usually quoted as 'Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked?')

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• I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by Carl's physique. I didn't feel inferior so much as incompatible. Carl existed on a plane where success was measured by physical feats. He had a brain because his body needed it, rather than the opposite. I didn't understand such people. I didn't know what they wanted, or might do.

  Max Barry

  Opposites, People, Brain

  Max Barry (2011). “Machine Man”, p.71, Vintage

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• Mr. McCleod: And if there's anything I want you guys to take with you from this class, as you're abusing your bodies over break, is three things: the heart is the body's strongest muscle, that the brain has more cells in it than our galaxy has stars, and that the body is 72% water. So wherever you go over vacation, don't get too dehydrated.

  Laura Kasischke

  Stars, Heart, Vacation

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• How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

  Ruby Wax

  Sick, Brain, Organs

  "What's so funny about mental illness?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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• Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information ... explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like, smells like and tastes like, what it feels like and what it sounds like.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Thinking, Smell, Brain

  "My stroke of insight". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.

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• There are wonders in true affection. It is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles, wherein two so become one, as they both become two.

  Thomas Browne

  Love, Two, Affection

  "Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings".

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• Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Reflection, Reputation, Pleasure

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• The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.

  Ezra Stiles

  Exercise, Liberty, Unalienable Rights

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• Kids nowadays...tend to go overboard [on] protein - something I believe to be totally unnecsssary...[I state in] my formula for basic good eating: Eat about one gram of protein for every two pounds of body weight.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Believe, Kids, Body Weight

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• Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn against the dead flesh, it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire, boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits, men who will rid the murder of its horrors, who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste decieved by these disguises will not reject what is strange to it, and will feast on corpses, the very sight of which would sicken you.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Animal, Fire

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.239, eKitap Projesi

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• I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.

  Walt Whitman

  Leadership, Men, Years

  Walt Whitman (2014). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.417, Melville House

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• Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly at all? People often ask these questions. But what civilization was not founded on adventure, and how long could one exist without it? Some answer the attainment of knowledge. Some say wealth, or power, is sufficient cause. I believe the risks I take are justified y the sheer love of the life I lead.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Believe, Adventure, Men

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• Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

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• Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything.

  Debi Mazar

  Mean, Thinking, Issues

  "Cooking Under The Tuscan Gun". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 16, 2009.

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• Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family.

  Paul Cellucci

  Perspective, Effort, Canada

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• All we know if an angel is that it is incorporeal, immaterial, and only by comparing it with God-who is incomparable-can we see that it has some density and body after all, since in reality only God is truly immaterial and incorporeal.

  John of Damascus

  Angel, Reality, Density

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• My Body, My Soul and I.
  
  
  My body is mine, but my body is not me,
  My body is an expression of my soul.
  My soul is mine, but my soul is not me,
  My soul is an expression of me -
  for I am.

  Ian Gardner

  Expression, Soul, Spirituality

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• Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.

  Robert Southey

  Spiritual, Judging, Over You

  Robert Southey (1858). “The Life of Wesley, and the rise and progress of methodism”, p.21

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• Not simply the righteousness of our Saviour, not simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His character, are we to put on as a garment. The Lord Himself is our vesture. Every Christian is not only a Christ bearer, but a Christ wearer. We are so to enter into Him by communion, to be so endued with His presence, and imbued with His Spirit that men shall see Him when they behold us, as they see our garments when they look upon our bodies.

  Adoniram Judson Gordon

  Christian, Character, Men

  Adoniram Judson Gordon (1897). “Yet Speaking: A Collection of Addresses”

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• The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.

  Horace Mann

  Fall, Yield, Law

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.184

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