Body Quotes
12166 Body quotes by 5620 unique authors
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The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the…
— Richard Owen
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If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all nations, kindreds…
— Frederick Douglass
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Your love is the oil in my lamp of life. Your body the wick that burns casting a blanket of comfort over me as the…
— Steven Strait
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When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature's rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are living in the…
— Deepak Chopra
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Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important…
— Bill Moyers
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Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because…
— James A. Garfield
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Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because…
— James A. Garfield
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We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So…
— Jim Cooper
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I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
— Unknown Author
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[T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is] to refine and…
— James Madison
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Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
— William Shakespeare
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Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
— Charles Dickens
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When mourning the loss of our departed friends, I cannot help but think that in every death there is a birth; the spirit leaves the…
— Wilford Woodruff
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The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst…
— Martin Luther
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Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . . .…
— Ray Stannard Baker
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As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where particular state constitutions…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely…
— Karl Popper
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For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes…
— Adolf Hitler
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Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To…
— Khalil Gibran
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We as a people seem to be losing all sense of respect for ourselves and our fellow men, with the result that in a thoroughly…
— Unknown Author
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That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of…
— Oscar Romero
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It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
— Pope Leo XIII
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What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to…
— Saint Augustine
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Though the human body is born complete in one moment, the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process. It is being birthed in…
— John O'Donohue
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The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being…
— Carl Jung
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