Physical Quotes - page 2

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. (Stephen Leacock)
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future. View quote
Max Planck
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficiallyinfluence the lot of mankind. View quote
Albert Einstein
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case. View quote
Albert Einstein
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation. View quote
John Updike
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. (Thomas Jefferson)
On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents. View quote
Sania Mirza
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. View quote
Ayn Rand
I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures. It is not inhibited by flourish. It is a rhetorical society. It is a society of physical performance. It is a society of style. View quote
Derek Walcott
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces. View quote
José Rizal
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. View quote
André Malraux
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. View quote
Cicero
The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species. View quote
Adam Ferguson
Judo is the way to the most effective use of both physical and spiritual strength. View quote
Jigoro Kano
General relativity is certainly a very beautiful theory, but how does one judge the elegance of physical theories generally? (Roger Penrose)
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. View quote
John Fowles
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 problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease. View quote
Betty Friedan
Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept. View quote
Laurette Taylor