Stomach Quotes - Page 32

• The stomach, when we lie down to rest, should have its work done, that it may enjoy rest, as well as other portions of the body. The work of digestion should not be carried on through any period of the sleeping hours.

  Ellen G. White

  Lying, Sleep, Should Have

  Ellen G. White (1994). “Healthful Living”, p.162, TEACH Services, Inc.

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• The stomach, liver, lungs and brain are suffering for want of deep, full inspirations of air which would electrify the blood and impart to it a bright, lively color, and which alone can keep it pure, and give tone and vigor to every part of the living machinery.

  Ellen G. White

  Inspiration, Blood, Color

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• A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, People, Meals

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.

  Agatha Christie

  Mean, Way, Looks

  Agatha Christie (2014). “The Dressmaker’s Doll: An Agatha Christie Short Story”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.

  Hippocrates

  Exercise, Opposites, People

  A Regimen for Health IV (transl. John Chadwick and W.N. Mann)

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• The Heimlich maneuver works on house pets. My pit bull was choking on his dinner. I squeezed his stomach and the neighbor's cat shot right out.

  Scott Wood

  Funny, Dog, Cat

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• The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.

  Alan Watts

  Animal, Men, Brain

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine.

  Frank A. Clark

  Contentment, May, Hungry

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• A young pregnant wife has been hospitalized for a simple attack of appendicitis. The doctors had to apply ice to her stomach and when the treatments ended the doctors suggested that she abort the child, they told her it was the 'best solution' because the baby would be born with some disability but the young brave wife decided not to abort, and the child was born. That woman was my Mother and I was the child.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate accident. I hadn't learned that it can happen so gradually you don't lose your stomach or hurt yourself in the landing. You don't necessarily sense the motion. I've found it takes at least two and generally three things to alter the course of a life: You slip around the truth once, and then again, and one more time, and there you are, feeling, for a moment, that it was sudden, your arrival at the bottom of the heap.

  Jane Hamilton

  Hurt, Thinking, Two

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• Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.

  Douglas Coupland

  Loneliness, Beer, Cnn

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• When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Thinking, Covered Up

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• What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has viewed carefully and by examination into their nature the things which happen in life? Persevere then until thou shalt have made these things thy own, as the stomach which is strengthened makes all things its own, as the blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Exercise, Opportunity

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.62, Lulu.com

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• By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach full of milk, but Amy felt a heaviness begin, a familiar turning of some inward tide. As they drove over the bridge the sun seemed to move from a cheerful daytime yellow to an early-evening gold; painful how the gold light hit the riverbanks, rich and sorrowful, drawing from Amy some longing, a craving for joy.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Moving, Two, Yellow

  Elizabeth Strout (2003). “Amy and Isabelle: A Novel”, p.56, Vintage

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• Worry is the stomach's worst poison.

  Alfred Nobel

  Worry, Poison, Worst

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• ...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself.

  John Updike

  Mother, People, Withdrawal

  John Updike (2003). “Rabbit, run ; Rabbit redux”

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• You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.

  William Booth

  Heart, Feet, People

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• I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody else to listen to it. I need, I do want an audience. So it's a strange thing. It's a very private conversation that then, you make public, kind of, like, the starfish flipping its stomach out.

  Kay Ryan

  Thinking, Self, Talking

  "ArtWorks" with Jo Reed, www.arts.gov.

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• The parasite that causes malaria edges through the cells of the stomach wall of the mosquito and forms a cyst which grows and eventually bursts to release hundreds of sporozoites into the body cavity of the mosquito ... As far as we can tell, the parasite does not harm the mosquito ... It has always seemed to me, though, that these growing cysts ... must at least give the mosquito something corresponding to a stomach-ache.

  Marston Bates

  Wall, Science, Cells

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• I don't have a lot of stomach for people who don't show up to a set knowing their lines because you're keeping 150 people waiting.

  Julianna Margulies

  Knowing, People, Waiting

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• The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.

  George Carlin

  Cancer, Humorous, Long

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• To a man with an empty stomach food is God

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Food, Men, Poverty

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• Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Beer, Men

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• Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach.

  Marcus O'Sullivan

  Sports, Running, Hate

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• Whenever I think of this attack, my stomach turns over.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Thinking, World

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