Body Quotes

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one. — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are… — Saint Augustine
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body. — Jane Austen
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on… — Alfred Austin
We live on the leash of our senses. — Diane Ackerman
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats. — Richard Bach
The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became… — Amitabh Bachchan
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us.… — Gaston Bachelard
I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my… — Erykah Badu

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