The Body Quotes

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.

Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.

I think my feet are my sexiest body part. People I find really sexy include Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and my mum.

I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.

Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.

You are not a soul, you are not a mind, you are not a body. You are the controller of all three.

If you make your body very strong, really strong, it can fight off anything.

When you do not consciously relate to your body, your mind does not relate consciously to you.

There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.

Every thought, word, or deed, either purifies or pollutes the body.

the body, seeking truth, sends a signal. But decoding it, interpreting its meaning, and knowing how to proceed from there is another matter entirely.

Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.

I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.

I find when I'm overly concerned about what I eat, I stress out my body and put on weight.

My body shape was made to get into the perfect aerodynamic position.

Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us.

I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!

I guess anyone with a beautiful body, man or woman, loves to be looked at, but to admit such a thing is a little rough at times. That's why it's hard to get people to pose.

As I've got older, I feel more confident in my body, so wouldn't want to tamper with it.

I find if my body feels well and I exercise regularly, I think better, work better and feel better.

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

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.

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.

Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there were not a divine fire kindled at the same time to warm your spirit?

The body can feed the body only.

A gun will give you the body, not the bird

This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

What is man but a mass of thawing clay?

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.

I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.

Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore.

His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.

How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.

Words are but the bannerets of a great army, a few bits of waving color here and there; thoughts are the main body of the footman that march unseen below.

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

Fashion is just a name for one of the things that happen where mind and body intersect.

Our souls belong to our bodies, not our bodies to our souls.

The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly.

There definitely was a time when I was pretty obsessed with my weight, but I'm better off not stressing about my body all the time.

Sage made me complete. He made me happy. He was as much a part of me as my own body. How could anyone lose that and still exist?" - Clea Raymond

I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

Let Love step down, open the clasped hands, forfeit the thorny crown, retrieve the garment that was whole, body and spirit one, spirit and soul.

An uplifting, fat-tastic voyage to self-love, Read My Hips made me realize that I no longer need to be weighed down by constantly judging my body. I devoured this book-it's deliciously inspiring!