Spine Quotes

270 Spine quotes by 222 unique authors

Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases — Hippocrates
Look well to the spine for the cause of disease. — Hippocrates
It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and… — Hippocrates
Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the… — Twyla Tharp
The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread,… — Megan Abbott
The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear… — Thomas Merton
You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall. — James Geary
German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real… — Brian Lumley
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert. — B.K.S. Iyengar
If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young. — Joseph Pilates
A man is as old as his spine is flexible! — Joseph Pilates
With Material for the Spine, I am interested in alloying a technical approach to the processes of improvisation. It is a system for exploring interior… — Steve Paxton
You are as young as your spine is flexible. — Richard Hittleman
Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine. — Unknown Author
A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their… — Fanny Kemble
I pride myself on how little space I take up. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete… — Julie Gregory
Forgiving is tough. Excusing is easy. What a mistake it is to confuse forgiving with being mushy, soft, gutless, and oh, so understanding. Before we… — Lewis B. Smedes
No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification… — Tallulah Bankhead
The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem… — Michael O'Leary
The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which again… — Luis de Camoes
Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is… — Dave Sim
TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its… — Ambrose Bierce
The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids. — Etgar Keret
The reason the Democrats are so intent on passing a stem-cell bill is they're depending on the research to grow themselves a spine. — Will Durst

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