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Quotes About Posture

Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back.
~ Anthony Browne
If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache
~ N. C. Wyeth
Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.
~ Ayn Rand
As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.
~ Isaac Barrow
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Tree pose grows confidence.
~ Terri Guillemets
three cardinal rules for going faster: 1. Balance your body in the water. 2. Make your body longer. 3. Swim on your side.
~ Terry Laughlin
I do not like to see young Christians with shoulders that slope like a champagne bottle.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Now being upon the haunches (as he necessarily must be in this case) is it impossible but he must be light in hand, because no horse can be rightly upon his haunches without being so.
~ William Cavendish
Women curl up with books, guys stretch out
~ Nora Roberts
No one sleeps in Hell except as a possible defensive posture in retaliation during yet another punitive presentation of The English Patient.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Her legs are crossed at the knee and ankle.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
holding your book over your head while you lie down will all cause low-level constant contraction of several muscle groups.
~ Clair Davies
Next you will assume the position we call kneel forward. Keeping your legs spread wide, you basically assume a plank pose, but remain on your knees. It can be challenging to hold for an extended period of time.
~ Claire Thompson
Her new life required a different sort of strength. She was meticulous in her posture, a walking spear, in the manner of those who'd been made to bend and will bend no more.
~ Colson Whitehead
The man's posture said that he did not enjoy taking orders, and the insolence in his eyes was not slave insolence, an impotent pose, but a hard fact.
~ Colson Whitehead
Hold your head up! Throw you shoulders back! It's the cheapest way to tell the world you're somebody!
~ Laura Amy Schlitz
The fundamental condition of man is his verticality.
~ Laura Fraser
Jade approached the group of boys slowly. There were five of them, four sitting with their shoulders angled toward the fifth, who stood with one foot in the bucket of a swing. If you check the body posture, you can always find the ringleader, he thought.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
the crowd, bathed in light, his posture and trim
~ James Lee Burke
The Carrion Spike may already be in motion," Tarkin said, squaring his shoulders. As if in echo of Tarkin's posture of readiness, Vader planted his fists on his hips. "Then we have no time to spare.
~ James Luceno
Please, sit down, Sharon said with another hair toss. I made a mental note to practice doing that in a mirror the next time I saw one. it seemed a useful skill, right up there with roundhouse kicks.
~ James Patterson
Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.
~ Loretta Young
I think a lot of women have back problems.
~ Erin Heatherton