Body Quotes · Page 168

Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.

— William S. Burroughs

I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love.

— Marguerite Duras

Yoga has helped me become more in tune and respectful of not just my body but my soul.

— Zoe McLellan

When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let…

— Neil Strauss

Juggling is a conversation with the stick, the body, the brain.

— Michael Moschen

When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.

— Milan Kundera

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

— Diane Wakoski

Mindfulness of the body is awareness of... the taste and smell of this moment.

— Steve Hagen

Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by…

— William Carlos Williams

For some, a perfect body means having muscle mass and fat in proportion to one's height. For others, it may mean more…

— Sherlyn Chopra

Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious.…

— Anonymous

A body of work may be reviled -- mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings -- and yet still…

— Charles de Lint

In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters,…

— C. S. Lewis

I find significance in all kinds of small details when I run; I'm hyper aware of my surroundings, the sensations in my…

— Kristin Armstrong

How our availability, our showing up, our presence, leaves us open to that violence. I think it's a question of language, as…

— Claudia Rankine

I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt…

— Freya Stark

I was a knight," Andrea said. "I'm not just going to start shooting every dickhead who mouths off to me." "Just making…

— Ilona Andrews

The arteries are found in nearly every part of the animal body, with the exception of the hairs, nails, and epidermis; and…

— Henry Gray

We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

I think sharing backfields, I think not getting overloaded with 300 carries a season for like five or six seasons in a…

— Mark Ingram II

“Old age. All the facial detail is visible; all the traces life has left there are to be seen. The face is…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

You are still in 100% body con­sciousness. Do not stay with this body conscious­ness. Remove that. What will remain will be Atma-consciousness.…

— Sathya Sai Baba

This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that…

— Hal Porter

Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas!…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks.

— Aretha Franklin

Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe…

— Richard Parks Bland

I feel sexy when I can be in charge of how I present my body and how I am in this world.

— Tess Holliday

I feel like my body doesn't judge the hours, you know? It doesn't care if it's daytime or nighttime.

— Miles Teller

Most souls are into power on the earth. Most souls here are developing their occult body.

— Frederick Lenz

The living body is intelligent beyond our understanding; it is incomprehensibly intelligent.

— Harvey Diamond

The head has no purpose in the golf swing. It simply goes where the body takes it

— George Knudson

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

— Horace

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there

— Jeanette Winterson

“The Heart is the engine, the Brain is the steering wheel, and the Mind is the essence of the Body.”

— Serena Jade

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

— Anish Kapoor

Every desire of your body is holy; Every desire of your body is Holy.

— Hafez

What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.

— Anonymous

Your bones are for life. Look after them and they will carry you far.

— Susan Hampshire

I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.

— Jonathan Tucker

The best ability is availability, so take care of your body so you can practice and get better.

— Nelson Agholor