Bodily Quotes

265 Bodily quotes by 211 unique authors

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character. — Theodore Roosevelt
In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage… — Theodore Roosevelt
Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience.… — Alfred North Whitehead
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp… — Charles Darwin
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. — Thomas Jefferson
Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity. — Pope John XXIII
How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit… — Maimonides
Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared… — Josh McDowell
I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never… — Helen Mirren
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead… — Steve Prefontaine
When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even… — Rufus Wainwright
Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've… — Neil Gaiman
...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home… — Rebecca Solnit
There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits. — Margaret Atwood
Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in… — Clarice Lispector
...more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance of the look… — Luce Irigaray
truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what… — Herman Melville
You broke me bodily. The heart ain't the half of it, And I'll never learn to laugh at it In my good natured way. In… — Ani DiFranco
What you don't catch a glimpse of on your wedding day- because how could you?- is that some days you will hate your spouse, that… — Nick Hornby
Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type… — Michael Pollan

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