Quotes with body

Quotes 141 till 160 of 398.

  • June Jordan If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.
    June Jordan
    American poet and civil rights activist (1939 - )
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  • Hannah More If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Mark Twain If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Burt Shavitz If I decide I want to go canoeing, I've got a canoe. If I want to take my dog with me, nobody tells me I can't do it. If I want to go skinny dipping and wash my body, I can take my clothes off.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Roberto Clemente If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
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  • Erica Jong If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Carlton Fisk If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
    Carlton Fisk
    American baseball player (1947 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bob Harper If you want to be right-sized in body, you've got to get rid of the supersize way of life.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Bela Karolyi In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • John Ruskin In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • William Penn In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • George Orwell In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • William Congreve In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Barbara de Angelis In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Bruce Lipton In reality, a cell is a biological mini-me compared to the human body. A cell has every biological system that you have.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem 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
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Haniel Long In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.
    Haniel Long
    American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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