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Body Quotes by Anthony Giddens
- The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.
- Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see this phenomenon only…
- Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits, organised in some…
- The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.
- The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also…
More Body Quotes
- 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… — 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… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — 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… — 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… — Saint Augustine