Quotes About Body

He's fully aware that old age will be coming for him too, in time. Health troubles, insurance issues, all with no hope of a pension. Even now, in his forties, he has started to feel slightly less trustful of his own body. He takes more care about how he lifts things, and he gets winded sooner on his runs. A long-ago basketball injury tends to set up a kind of echo in his left ankle during sudden changes in the weather.

When she was showering that night she examined her right side for a bruise, but there wasn't one.

The cat made a comma of sweat across his bare thighs.

The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness... The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. The dear, stupid body is easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious mind will hush if you give it an egg.

Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, It is the trade entering his body. The art must enter the body, too.

That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.

The coward's fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others' lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. — J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors

The problem is that it's hard to aim a rifle when your heart is pounding, which points to an irony of modern combat: it does extraordinarily violent things to the human body but requires almost dead calm to execute well.

Maimouna was blind, but this is not to say that she was pitiable. Far from it. She held her splendid, smooth skinned body like some goddess of the night, her head high, her vacant glance seeming to contemplate an area above people, above the world.

Reacting, as Zig Ziglar has said, is what your body does when you take the wrong kind of medicine. Reacting is what politicians do all the time.

When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer—if we take the time to stop and tune in.

The heart contracts when our bodies are overcome by shame.

With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which it strives toward but has not yet won. With you it is otherwise. The mind follows the body in pursuit of the soul you have been told you already have. Because you cannot find it, you assume you have lost it somewhere in your past, and this keeps you from achieving it in your future.

Things had gotten so intense, so painful, that my body just checked out. Yep, my mind and soul and heart had a quick meeting and voted to shut down for a few repairs.

9. In the darkness, her dark body grows darker until I am making love to her and her shadow.

Be Still, be still, she would say between her teeth, but Arnold loved his body too much to remain still.

Naked human sex, ew! (Xirena)

I don't want you skinny, Bride. I like you as you are. His breath tickled her neck as he spoke and sent heat all over her. My people have a saying. Meat is for the man, the bone is for the dog. Yeah, but you're both. And when given a choice between ribs and steak, I go for top choice every time.

Nice knees, bud, but the hairy legs could use a Bush Hog. (Kyrian)

But for the last couple of weeks I've had this bizarre sensation that something is watching me. (Simone) You mean someONE, right? (Tate) I know it sounds crazy – (Simone) I just had a body walk off the table mid-autopsy and you think your story is nuts? (Tate)

I'm just peachy. Even managed to keep most of my clothes on and everything. (Vane) Yeah, you do that. Don't want your scrawny body making my Sunshine go blind or anything. (Talon) Trust me, if she hasn't gone blind looking at your fat, hairy ass, mine's not going to hurt her any. (Vane) Hairy? Excuse me, but you definitely have me confused with your brother. (Talon)

I'm a gunfighter, Jim, not a demonologist. Sin moved past him so that he could burn the body o n the ground. Nice Bones impression. Roddenberry would be proud.

Don't lie! You're human! - Separated from my body. - Yes, you're about to be.

And what am I? (Adron) You're kind and decent. You have a good heart. (Livia) I have no heart at all. What I have is a mechanical substitute that pumps blood through a broken body, and half the time it malfunctions. (Adron)