Body Quotes - page 5

The courts must declare the sense of the law and if they should be disposed exercise will, instead of judgment, the consequences would be the substitution of their pleasure for that of the legislative body. (Alexander Hamilton)
You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. View quote
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation. View quote
Margaret Mead
The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
It cannot be too frequently emphasized that the behavior of any animal must depend upon on the nature of the stimulus which it meets, its anatomic and physiologic capacities, and its background of previous experience. Unless it has been conditioned by previous experience, an animal should respond identically to identical stimuli, whether they emanate from some part of its own body, from another individual of the same sex, or from an individual of the opposite sex. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. View quote
Bette Midler
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
In Tetrad form, the artefact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
I speak two languages, Body and English. View quote
Mae West
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us. View quote
Joseph Addison
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body. (William Cobbett)
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. View quote
Peter Medawar
A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls! View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong. View quote
Morarji Desai
The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed but the soul,no. View quote
Robert Browning
Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought.... life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. View quote
Clarice Lispector
I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware. View quote
Joan Rivers
The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. (Gaston Bachelard)
Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you. View quote
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. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry