Posture Quotes

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind. (Morihei Ueshiba)
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Of children as of procreation-the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Ambition is a vice which often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. View quote
Jonathan Swift
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. View quote
Victor Hugo
I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda. View quote
Richard V. Allen
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul de sac...Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form. View quote
Ayn Rand
When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on. View quote
António Damásio
What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger is just as recurrent, have nothing to bite on. The worst of it is the constrained posture need puts you in. The needy man does not walk like the rest; he skips, slithers, twists, crawls. (Denis Diderot)
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. View quote
Sting (musician)
The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture, which greatly facilitates the task of the fear-mongers and chauvinists, needs a very exact and nuanced diagnosis. I don't think that analogies from the totalitarian model, however suggestive, are sufficient. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen. View quote
Kodo Sawaki
We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process. View quote
Ted Engstrom
Partnership is not a posture but a process-a continuous process that grows stronger each year as we devote ourselves to common tasks. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture. View quote
Helen Fisher
Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms. View quote
Shannon Hale
Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture. View quote
Loretta Young
It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray. View quote
Billy Graham
I do find, coming form the stage and all that, I've always been conscious of my posture and my body, but also the style aspect, I do find myself throwing on a blazer and a nice pair of loafers more often. Daddy always likes a new pair of Guccis. (Bryan Batt)
When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are a little further back; your style is a little more dynamic. It's about the reestablishment of the gentleman. View quote
Dhani Jones
You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it. View quote
Faith Baldwin
I was terribly gawky, too goofy to become a high-kicking cheerleader, with stringy brown hair and bad posture. Definitely nobody noticeable! View quote
Helen Slater
After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no. View quote
John H. Sununu