Body Quotes · Page 125

Being in shape was not my goal. My body was a tool to test the capabilities of my will.

— Stefan Kieszling

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I've been blessed with a good body that has held up over the years and I love the game.

— Robert Parish

I've played the Royal Albert Hall to 8,500 people, and there wasn't a nerve in my body.

— Sandi Toksvig

Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.

— Rebecca Solnit

It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.

— Victoria Pendleton

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place…

— Alexander Pushkin

There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs,…

— Herbert M. Shelton

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is…

— Chanakya

If you don't eat right and you don't know how to take care of your body, you're not going to have the…

— Louise Hay

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as…

— Billy Idol

A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul…

— Rudolf Steiner

There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody…

— Ray Lewis

Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.

— Tony Abbott

I lost feeling for about five seconds. Everything. Head to toe. Times ten. You just sit there in no control. I was…

— Tyson Kidd

When you are a young actor, you're imbued with the high purpose of your art. You think, 'They hire me for my…

— Charlton Heston

I used to do ballet all the time, and I do this ballet workout: it is an amazing thing called Barrecore. It…

— Rita Ora

I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise…

— Joyce Carol Oates

All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed,…

— Hippocrates

I have to listen to my body - and it's telling me not to run long distances. So how do you train…

— Ginger Zee

I think women think I'm inspirational because I'm unapologetic. I have cellulite. I have back fat. I've got a thick stomach. But…

— Ashley Graham

I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick, t like my body.

— Alicia Keys

Happier thoughts lead to essentially a happier biochemistry. A happier, healthier body.

— John Hagelin

I love being on tour. That's the best job in the world, if only I had a different body.

— Chris Rea

To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.

— Deepak Chopra

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

I think in today's world we've discovered what works, silhouette-wise. A body's a body.

— Lazaro Hernandez

From your first kid, your body still kind of looks the same once you get back in shape.

— Jenny Mollen

Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.

— Lin Yutang

I don't know where to place my body. Everyone notices that about me. I'm very restless.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul.

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Socrates

I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces.

— Judith Light

The doctor looked my body over. I said: Is there any hope? He said: Yes. Reincarnation.

— Phyllis Diller

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It's to your advantage to work your brain as well as your body. The rest is up to fate.

— Ann Reinking