Best His Body Proverbs
402 His Body quotes by 308 unique authors
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Sophos turned red, and I wondered about the circulation of his blood; maybe his body kept an extra supply of it in his head, ready…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it…
— J M Coetzee
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when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm…
— P. C. Cast
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As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel…
— William Butler Yeats
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When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!' Christ what an image.
— Louise Rennison
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...he enclosed pieces of string that he used to measure out his body--his head, thigh, forearm, finger, neck, everything. He wanted me to sleep with…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.
— Haruki Murakami
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At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand.…
— C.S. Lewis
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What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it…
— Joseph Brodsky
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The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed, and how they…
— Meg Rosoff
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He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.
— Lois Lowry
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Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he…
— Henry David Thoreau
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When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion…
— Flann O'Brien
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But like a gambler at a slot machine, hoping the next spin would change her life for the better, she closed in before she lost…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is…
— Ayn Rand
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Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his…
— Milan Kundera
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He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to…
— Garth Stein
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The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.
— Aravind Adiga
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He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him.…
— Jack London
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Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his…
— Jack London
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Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are…
— Sigmund Freud
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I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him…
— Jodi Picoult
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Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his…
— Stuart Hill
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It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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