Physical Quotes

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. (Mahatma Gandhi)
The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations. View quote
David Friedman
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. View quote
Edmund Burke
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. View quote
W. H. Auden
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. View quote
George Washington
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. View quote
Mark Twain
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong". View quote
Sydney J. Harris
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about. View quote
Rollo May
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. (W. Somerset Maugham)
Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development. View quote
Rita Levi-Montalcini
All media are extensions of some human faculty -- psychic or physical. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. View quote
Vannevar Bush
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. View quote
Mother Teresa
Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love all manner of sacrifice could be borne. View quote
Steven Erikson
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. View quote
Sophia Loren
We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content. View quote
Eduardo Galeano
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. (Audre Lorde)
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. View quote
Lewis Mumford
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. View quote
Max Beerbohm
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. View quote
Max Beerbohm
I don't suppose that applies so much to other physicists; I think it's a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations which maybe don't have any physical meaning at all. Sometimes they do. View quote
Paul Dirac