Every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you’ve ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I didn't react visually. This girl came up and knelt over the body and let out a God-awful scream that made me… — John Filo Copy Share Image
After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
In truth, I’m not my body, my race, religion, or other beliefs, and neither is anyone else. The real self is infinite… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
The central idea of love is not even a relationship commitment, the first thing is a personal commitment to be the best… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
We read our mail and counted up our missions In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. For I know he lives… — Jack Valenti Copy Share Image
Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
It might be asked, 'How much time shall I allow myself for rest?' The answer is that no rule of universal application… — George Muller Copy Share Image
The heart becomes sick, as the body becomes sick, and its remedy is al-Tawbah (repentance) and protection [from transgression]. It becomes rusty… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
My advice to seniors - and I consider myself one - is to first and foremost take care of your body. Secondly,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to change is to act as if you are the person you want to become. When you… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Now suzanne takes you hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From salvation army counters… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof...What I mean is that… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I… — Oksana Baiul Copy Share Image
Who said that looking good is not a task? There are so many girls with a well maintained body, but will they… — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so.… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
She had come to him to escape her mother's world, a world where all bodies were equal. She had come to him… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
She laid her head against his collarbone, and he kissed her temple. To her shock, she felt a shudder roll through his… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
“Samsa looked down in dismay at his naked body. How ill-formed it was! Worse than ill-formed. It possessed no means of self-defense.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To practice properly the Art of Peace, you must: Calm the spirit and return to the source. Cleanse the body and spirit… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Bluestar blinked. "There are cats who would argue that there should never have been a fifth Clan in the forest at all.… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
Pain, I came to feel, might well prove to be the sole proof of the persistence of consciousness within the flesh, the… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, Youve got such… — Vidya Balan Copy Share Image
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have… — Fernando Bujones Copy Share Image
I dance with people I despise; amuse myself with men whose only talent lies in their feet, gain the disapprobation of people… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A great deal of it is personal. But the persona is, I guess, the out of body experience that takes place. Because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You knocked the door down." Disbelief rang in his matter-of-fact tone. "I know," she answered,unable to say anything else. Unable to look… — C.C. Hunter Copy Share Image
I naturally have an athletic build, thick legs yet a lean upper body. I filled out much later than all my classmates,… — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image