Quotes with body

Quotes 241 till 260 of 398.

  • Joyce Cary Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Oscar Wilde Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Norman Douglas Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Anne Edwards She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.
    Anne Edwards
    American author (1927 - )
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  • Calista Flockhart Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Brunello Cucinelli St. Benedict said to take care of your mind, body and soul. I swim for an hour every morning, do 15 minutes of Tibetan stretching and breathing exercises, and play soccer with friends four or more nights a week.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Zoroaster Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Jim Rohn Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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  • Bruce Jackson Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Beth Ditto Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Caitlin Stasey The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
    Caitlin Stasey
    Australian actress (1990 - )
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  • Iris Murdoch The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • George Sand The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Goodman Ace The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else s.
    Goodman Ace
    American humourist, radio writer and comedian (1899 - 1982)
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  • Napoleon The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Caitlin Doughty 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.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • George Santayana The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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