Quotes with body

  • It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
  • Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.
  • Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
  • As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.
  • In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the
  • The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.
  • The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
  • Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.
  • I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.
  • It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
+7

Quotes 1 till 20 of 398.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next 
  • Leonard Cohen A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
    - +
    +6
  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
    - +
    +1
  • David Gemmell A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
    Quest For Lost Heroes (2011) 43
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
    - +
    +1
  • Joseph Stowell As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.
    Joseph Stowell
    American Christian author
    - +
    +1
  • Albert J. Nock Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
    - +
    +1
  • Winston Churchill Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
    - +
    +1
  • Joseph Addison Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
    - +
    +1
  • Thomas Jefferson Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
    - +
    +1
  • Alex Grey I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
    Alex Grey
    American visionary artist, author and teacher
    - +
    +1
  • Denzel Washington I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me-spiritually and financially.
    Denzel Washington
    American actor, director, and producer (1954 - )
    - +
    +1
  • Mae West I speak two languages, Body and English.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
    - +
    +1
  • Johann Gottfried Seume Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
    Johann Gottfried Seume
    German writer (1763 - 1810)
    - +
    +1
  • Brene Brown If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people's choices. If I feel good about my body, I don't go around making fun of other people's weight or appearance. We're hard on each other because we're using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
    - +
    +1
  • Emily Dickinson If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
    - +
    +1
  • William Jennings Bryan If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
    William Jennings Bryan
    American orator and politician (1860 - 1925)
    - +
    +1
  • Epictetus It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
    - +
    +1
  • B. R. Ambedkar Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
    - +
    +1
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
    - +
    +1
  • Bill Watterson Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
    - +
    +1
  • Boris Pasternak The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
    - +
    +1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next 
All body famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com

Popular subjects

Popular authors