Body Quotes · Page 167

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

— Shoshana Zuboff

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

— Socrates

Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]

— Tacitus

You start treating your body right and your immune system is better.

— Aaron Bruno

Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

— Anonymous

A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.

— Sathya Sai Baba

We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.

— Kevin Plank

I was really self conscious as a kid, I felt terrible - like a prisoner in my own body.

— Tess Holliday

You’re far more likely to see a naked woman than a naked man. It’s only [seen as] rude because the rest of…

— Russell T Davies

With no gravitational force to work against, your body not only doesn't need the same amount of muscle and bone, it starts…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I want to get fitter. And yes, I'm learning hot yoga to get a bikini body. I don't believe one has to…

— Sonam Kapoor

I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except near a…

— Dylan Moran

God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us…

— Nicolas Malebranche

She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn't be offered carelessly ever again, as it holds a direct connection…

— Steve Martin

Not playing every day, I kind of healed up a little bit from the little injuries that I had the year before.…

— Jim Thome

Definitely practice in the mirror before you attempt it. You have to use your body in the upright position, you can use…

— Big Freedia

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a…

— James Salter

This power becomes particularly irresistible when exercised by those who, because they hold and control money, are able also to govern credit…

— Pope Pius XI

How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts? Was…

— Isaac Newton

In basketball, the legs are the most important part of your body. A lot of people think it's the upper body because…

— Luol Deng

Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to…

— Robert Ringer

Now I begin to be a disciple. I care for nothing, of visible or invisible things, so that I may but win…

— Ignatius of Antioch

Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself.…

— Sylvia Plath

Cold?" Ravus echoed. He took her arm and rubbed it between his hands, watching them as though they were betraying him. "Better?"…

— Holly Black

Hrithik Roshan has a great body. He is able to mould his physique to suit the role he is playing.

— Gurmeet Choudhary

“ Ocean , n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.”

— Ambrose Bierce

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

— Thomas Nagel

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

— Russell Baker

I had an exciting style, I was very aggressive, a body puncher, and I attacked all the time.

— Ricky Hatton

That's just me and my own body issues - I think I'm fat and bald and old and ugly.

— Jeffrey Tambor

My body size and everything was perfect for being a heavyweight wrestler rather than being a linebacker.

— Cain Velasquez

Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.

— Anonymous

I think to win in straight sets every match is important for the body, for the legs, for the physical conditions.

— Juan Martin del Potro

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

— Frank Herbert

It wasn't until I moved to America that I started to really embrace my body and my skin color and who I…

— Liz Cambage

Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential.

— Hal Sparks

As long as the body feels OK, I'm enjoying playing, helping the team improve and taking wickets, I'll keep going.

— James Anderson

Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.

— Laozi

I'm interested in nutrition and fascinated by the changes you can make to your body through diet and exercise.

— Chloe Madeley

...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.

— Rene Descartes