Body Quotes - page 4

The soul needs more space than the body. (Axel Munthe)
If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do. View quote
Alex Berenson
As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment. View quote
Joseph Murphy
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well. View quote
Eben Alexander
Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in. View quote
Christina Ricci
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his Body and truth for his soul. View quote
Pythagoras
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples. View quote
John Updike
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body. View quote
John Adams
I'm very happy with my body. View quote
Alicia Keys
There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body. (William Hazlitt)
Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form. View quote
Maimonides
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. View quote
Maimonides
There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual. View quote
John Williams
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. View quote
William Ellery Channing
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. View quote
Norman Cousins
Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power. View quote
Joseph McCabe
Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book. View quote
John Donne
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. View quote
Cicero
Diseases of the mind are more common and more pernicious than diseases of the body. (Cicero)
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. View quote
Robert Frost
Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding. View quote
Jason Statham