Body Quotes - page 2

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up. (Marilyn Monroe)
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. View quote
Martin Heidegger
To me, the body says what words cannot. View quote
Martha Graham
It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate. View quote
Dave Barry
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred. View quote
Walt Whitman
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. View quote
Alanis Morissette
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. (M. H. Abrams)
Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body. View quote
Georg Büchner
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. View quote
Joseph Addison
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. View quote
William Penn
Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash. View quote
Jerry Seinfeld
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. View quote
Iris Murdoch
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "Wow what a ride! View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never. View quote
Hermann Hesse
Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither. (Oscar Wilde)
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. View quote
Bill Watterson
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me. View quote
William Congreve
For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. View quote
George Gissing
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