Bodily Quotes

265 Bodily quotes by 211 unique authors

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man. — Howard Cosell
The bigotry is so virulent that it may be time to make Christians a protected class. Right now 'Christo-phobia' and 'Biblo-phobia' are at such a… — E.W. Jackson
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily… — Stephen Batchelor
The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought. — John Bargh
I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I'm ripped, doing something I wouldn't normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving… — Benedict Cumberbatch
The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now… — Loretta Devine
Thereâ€™s a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. Thatâ€™s the fascination of archives. Thereâ€™s still a bodily trace. — Susan Howe
What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human… — Barbara Brown Taylor
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the… — A. N. Wilson
The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent,… — Edward Abbey
God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly… — Thomas Jefferson
Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has perhaps… — Alfred North Whitehead
The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind. — Aung San Suu Kyi
The limits of pleasures are as yet neither known nor fixed, and we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
In the dance the boundaries between body and soul are effaced. The body moves itself spiritually, the spirit bodily. — Gerard van der Leeuw
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was… — Henry David Thoreau
No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception — Grantly Dick-Read
Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state. — Saint Augustine

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