Best Bodies Quotations
1801 Bodies quotes by 1272 unique authors
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I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping…
— John Donne
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What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The…
— Ellen G. White
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I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and…
— Samuel Johnson
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If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us…
— Walter Russell
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The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle…
— Galileo Galilei
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Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies, when heated beyond…
— Isaac Newton
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and…
— Isaac Newton
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On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the…
— Seneca the Younger
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It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to…
— Georges Cuvier
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[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial…
— John Playfair
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If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope…
— Louis Pasteur
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Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds…
— John Owen
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The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within the reach of…
— Isaac Newton
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Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that belong to all bodies on…
— Isaac Newton
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The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our…
— Charles Lyell
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Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live,…
— Carl Linnaeus
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Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the…
— Hans Zinsser
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To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and in the world. When we…
— Nhat Hanh
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Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may…
— James Madison
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Taste and style is beyond clothes. It's in food; it's in quality. Working out, healthy bodies, organic food-they're all part of the same thing.
— Kanye West
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