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Quotes About Bodies

I can measure the motions of bodies," Sir Isaac Newton once observed, "but I cannot measure human folly." Nor could he do so as regards his own. He was to lose
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.
~ Carol Gilligan
We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.
~ Charlie Kaufman
Everyday we search for happiness; maybe we have been living it this whole time. When we wake up and breathe it is in our bodies and we have that one last chance to get it right.
~ Unknown
I remember the runners best, nut-brown bodies slicked with oil, stretching on the track beneath the sun. They mix together, broad-shouldered husbands, beardless youths and boys, their calves all thickly carved with muscle.
~ Madeline Miller
The poem is neither here nor there, and with a girl's breast it can illuminate the nights. With the glow of an apple it fills two bodies with light and with a gardenia's breath it can revive a homeland!
~ Mahmoud Darwish
the path of salvation could be walked successfully only by those who had practical, scientific knowledge of the occult function of their own bodies.
~ Unknown
It is difficult for many to realize that they are actual universes; that their physical bodies are a visible nature through the structure of which countless waves of evolving life are unfolding their latent potentialities.
~ Unknown
L'angoixava la certesa monstruosa que eren feliços sobre una muntanya de cadàvers.
~ Unknown
that the mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds of the flesh is the constant duty of believers.
~ John Owen
The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds of the flesh, is the constant duty of believers.
~ John Owen
an easy chair for Lucas. Lucas took it, gave them a quick summary of the Jones case, including the recovery of the girls' bodies, and recited the details, as he remembered them, of the descriptions he'd accumulated on the man who'd called himself John Fell. "Fairly big guy, but
~ John Sandford
You could say our new colonies live off the bodies of the dead. Only they're not really the bodies of the dead. They're just the cast-off bodies of the living.
~ John Scalzi
How I suffered from the position in which careless Nature placed us, when it instituted the separation of bodies from each other, and forgot to provide for the interpenetration of souls!
~ Marcel Proust
Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
~ Marcus Garvey
Phænomena's of Cœlestial Bodies
~ Margaret Cavendish
Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.
~ Marie Curie
Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.
~ Antoine Lavoisier
For all the concern about bodies and weight, 'Baywatch' has three huge catering trucks on the set at all times. One for entrees, one appetizers and one for junk food.
~ Unknown
Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals. Nature uses both kingdoms to form all existing combustible mat
~ Antoine Lavoisier
When I die I want my body to donate for research, but more specifically to a scientist who is working on bringing dead bodies back to life.
~ Unknown
We aren't disciples in midair without bodies, histories, personalities, relationships and much more. We begin to follow by responding to Jesus' invitation where we are.
~ Unknown
Private prisons are an offspring of the larger incarceration binge we have been tracing. The private prisons mark the spaces in U.S. society where the bodies of the poor most dramatically show the results of the policies comprehensively inaugurated by the Ronald Reagan presidency, which sought to privatize in the early 1980s as many government functions as possible. The
~ Unknown
State terror thereby creates obedience in the bodies of citizens and residents by enlisting the tense stomach and the threatened sphincter as visceral reminders of the external threats. There, terror often abides, in hidden but lethal ways.
~ Unknown