Physical Quotes - page 3

The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these "sins" as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification. (Anton LaVey)
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
Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. View quote
Alex Haley
It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger. View quote
Tom Holt
I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths. View quote
Demi Moore
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. View quote
Wendell Phillips
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena. View quote
Edgard Varèse
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself. (Barbara Tuchman)
As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
Dancing is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that. You're dancing spirit. View quote
Judith Jamison
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt. View quote
Mark Twain
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
It baseball will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. View quote
Walt Whitman
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. (Giacomo Casanova)
There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle. View quote
Michael Faraday
Physical love is unthinkable without violence. View quote
Milan Kundera
Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems. View quote
Martha Beck
There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and success in life is a determinant of optimism. View quote
Martin Seligman