Muscles Quotes - Page 31

• Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.

  Dorothea Brande

  Writing, Solitude

  Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

  Joan Aiken

  Sweet, Writing, Exercise

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• It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Writing, Men, Victory

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• When Scripture talks about the heart, it's not talking about that life-sustaining muscle. It's talking about our entire inner being. The heart is the seat of our emotions, the seat of decisive action, and the seat of belief (as well as doubt).

  Billy Graham

  Heart, Talking, Doubt

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Who cares if there are lumps on my thighs? I'm guilty of having human legs made up of fat, muscle, and skin, and sometimes when you sit, they get bumpy!

  Kristen Bell

  Skins, Body, Legs

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• There was a rhythm to the canter. Up, forward, down; up, forward, down. It soon became pleasant. The broad warm rump felt good beneath her. The pounding was diminished, cushioned by the horse's muscles and the springiness of his hindquarter joints . . . The ridden horse was a marvel, diminishing space.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Horse, Space, Joints

  Morgan Llywelyn (2010). “The Horse Goddess”, p.198, Macmillan

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• Train children to bear responsibility as you would train them to build muscle. Add what they can handle, then prepare them for more.

  Wes Fesler

  Children, Responsibility, Add

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• The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking].

  Evan Esar

  Tired, Talking, Tongue

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• I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

  Smedley Butler

  Wall, Marine, Men

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• I've always known that I was a gifted person. ... I've always felt like I would be punished, severely, if I didn't continue to make use of that gift. It's very important that you don't let the muscle get flabby. It's really hard, as an old human being, to press as much weight as you pressed when you were a kid.

  Merle Haggard

  Writing, Kids, Important

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• If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Easter, Sacrifice

  The Parish Newsletter of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, April 2014.

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• What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically beautiful. Muscles retreat when they're not used, but they will always come back if you give them good reason. No matter how old you get, your muscles never lose hope. Few cells of the body are as capable as muscle cells are of change and reformation, of achievement and transcendence.

  Natalie Angier

  Beautiful, Cells, Giving

  Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Heart, Body, Flesh

  Stephen Batchelor (1998). “Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening”, p.27, Penguin

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• I'm training two-and-a-half hours a day, pushing my body beyond its normal limits, putting on a lot of muscle mass and just making myself look like Superman.

  Henry Cavill

  Two, Training, Looks

  "Superman's Henry Cavill Talks Eating 5,000 Calories A Day". Total Film Magazine Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 04, 2011.

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• The c**k isn't a muscle so it doesn't grow in relation to the shoulders, say, or the pectorals. You can't make it bigger through exercise, that's for sure.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Exercise, Bigger, Shoulders

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• The Jake Gyllenhaal workout planstarts with growing long, long hairgorgeous greasy locks and then washing every day.Wash, shampoo, then condition. Washing works the biceps and then the triceps by conditioning. And vigorously rubbing all of your body with soap really defines the abs and the pectoral muscles. And if you do squats while you're bathing - that's it!

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Workout, Long, Biceps

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• I don't need to worry about that, that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.

  Chris Pine

  Worry, Needs

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• Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart.

  Henry Rollins

  Kindness, Heart, Emotional

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• I don't always have the stomach muscles I have, and I get cellulite as well like everyone else.

  Elisabetta Canalis

  Stomach, Wells, Cellulite

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• I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, Id get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didnt know everyone was laughing at me.

  Ryan Gosling

  Moving, Kids, Laughing

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• I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.

  Dolly Parton

  Heart, My Heart

  Twitter post from Sep 17, 2009

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• A powerful athlete is not a strong athlete, but one who can exert his strength quickly. Since power equals force times speed, if the athlete learns to make faster movements he increases his power, even though the contractile pulling strength of his muscles remains unchanged. Thus, a smaller man who can swing faster may hit as hard or as far as the heavier man who swings slowly.

  Bruce Lee

  Strong, Powerful, Athlete

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• The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.

  Bruce Lee

  Strong, Athlete, Power

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the punch or attempting to use brute force to knock someone over will only work to opposite effect.

  Bruce Lee

  Opposites, Trying, Energy

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• We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

  Djuna Barnes

  Wind, Skins, Mortality

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.67, Faber & Faber

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