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Quotes About Body

I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.
~ Donovan Bailey
There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.
~ Karl Kraus
The Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that Fiat, or the Let us make man, pronounced by God in the Creation.
~ Thomas Hobbes
I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together.
~ Kim Hyesoon
Working your obliques pulls everything together and gives you a slim waist.
~ Marisa Miller
I travel every single day, but I make it a point to hit the gym. I want to look good for the summer.
~ Pauly D
I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.
~ Philip Roth
There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.
~ Neal Bascomb
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
~ Martha Graham
Microbes are just nature's janitors who work to clean up a poorly kept culturing medium. Trying to keep microbes off of and out of your body is like trying to keep the wind out of the trees.
~ Robert Morse
You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
~ Padma Lakshmi
Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.
~ Henry Van Dyke
For lunch, we drove into the hills and parked in the dappled shade of a big sycamore, its powdery white bark like a woman's body against the uncanny blue sky.
~ Janet Fitch, White Oleander
Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.
~ Lidia Yuknavitch
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
~ Alexander Hamilton
We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!
~ Paul Prudhomme
Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much.
~ Geneen Roth
After 20 years in special operations trust me, I know my body.
~ Joe Teti
The more trust you develop in your body, the more trust you develop in your deeper self.
~ Stephen Russell
You have to trust your body to take care of you.
~ A. J. Langer
God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.
~ Raymond Holliwell
We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
~ Hippocrates
It is the mind that makes the body.
~ Sojourner Truth
These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.
~ Gregory of Nazianzus