Body Quotes - Page 40

• My body is an ugly masterpiece that lives off the beauty of sound.

  Backseat Goodbye

  Sound, Ugly, Masterpiece

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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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• Every cell in our body is primarily water. But the water doesn't just sit in the cell, it moves through it in a very organized way. The process occurs rapidly in tissues that have these aquaporins or water channels.

  Peter Agre

  Moving, Cells, Water

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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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• My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.

  Oksana Baiul

  Letting Go, Ice, Land

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• If you don't eat right and you don't know how to take care of your body, you're not going to have the energy to do anything wonderful.

  Louise Hay

  Motivational, Spiritual, Self Improvement

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• You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means your brain is receiving information from your body what your car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Motivational, Football, Mean

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• Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle

  Owen Hart

  Motivational, Wrestling, Talking

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• My body is a little bit sore from all of the practicing and playing and training

  Tiger Woods

  Motivational, Workout, Training

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.

  Susie Orbach

  Inspirational, Girl, Women

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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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• My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force.

  Jennifer Garner

  Eye, Sister In Law, Blue

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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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• Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?

  Laozi

  Names, Taoism, Wealth

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• My mind is full of secrets I'm too afraid to tell. My body's full of longing for you to know me well.

  Heather Nova

  Friendship, Secret, Mind

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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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• At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.

  David Mixner

  Moving, Mind, Legs

  "At Home With Myself in a World of AIDS" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.

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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 am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.

  Jock Sturges

  Evolution, Humans, Fascinated

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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