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Quotes About Body

Es wäre sehr leer ohne die junge Fremde, das Meer und das Gelände mit Dünen und Wind. [...]. Es wäre Sand wie auf Sylt (1949) und Meeresbläue wie bei Sperlonga (1962) und Erinnerung. Auch wenn er Lynn nicht anschaut: sie macht die Gegenwart, ihr Körper im andern Sessel.
~ Max Frisch
For you to be healthy, you must rest. Slow down, and God will heal you. He will bring rest to your mind, to your body, and most of all to your soul. He will lead you to green pastures.
~ Max Lucado
To see the consequences of anxiety, just read about half the ailments in a medical textbook.
~ Max Lucado
For hours she lay on the ground, alternately body and space. Sometimes a vision of normal comfort obliterated reality:
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
Laura felt now completely detached from her body. It was, she considered, simply a piece of machinery that was running down. But how could the separation be made? How could she find herself without this machine that labored for breath and rejected food and sent her into misery with the coughing? It could not be tamed. It could not be cajoled. It had, she felt, to be quite simply rejected as irrelevant.
~ May Sarton
I asked for the music, then invited it to enter my body and find the broken and sore places and restore them
~ Maya Angelou
Dancing liberated me and even made me feel as if my body had a reason to be
~ Maya Angelou
She stands before the abortion clinic, confounded by the lack of choices. In the Welfare line, reduced to the pity of handouts. Ordained in the pulpit, shielded by the mysteries. In the operating room, husbanding life. In the choir loft, holding God in her throat. On lonely street corners, hawking her body. In the classroom, loving the children to understanding.
~ Maya Angelou
She was tattooed on every part of his body. Deeper, in his heart, his very soul. A permanent brand that would never wear off.
~ Maya Banks
Also, I think I felt something come loose back there. I'm not trying to overreact or anything but I think it was my uterus. Honest. I think my uterus jiggled free. My uterus is just going to come out between my legs and I'm going to look like I'm walking around with an enormous load in my pants.
~ Meg Cabot
Nice to know I have that effect on boys. I mean, Christopher doesn't even know I exist, and Brandon Stark practically throws up when he sees me. Having my brain transplated into a supermodel's body was doing wonders for my love life.
~ Meg Cabot
Also, I think I felt something come loose back there. I'm not trying to overact or anything, but I think it was my uterus. Honest. I think my uterus jiggled free.
~ Meg Cabot
Weight doesn't matter. It really doesn't. I mean, it does if you're a model or whatever.
~ Meg Cabot
Which type of wedding gown best suits you? If you are lucky enough to be tall and slender, you can pretty much get away with any type or shape of gown. That is why models are tall and slender—anything looks good on them!
~ Meg Cabot
Subject:My butt
~ Meg Cabot
And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes.
~ Meg Rosoff
It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle.
~ Meg Rosoff
Sophos turned red, and I wondered about the circulation of his blood; maybe his body kept an extra supply of it in his head, ready for blushing.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
When he takes off his shirt, I see that his shoulders are narrow and his chest almost hairless and almost concave. For a second I'm disappointed but right away I think, Grow up; this is the chest of a husband.
~ Melissa Bank
No one likes being talked to about their face.
~ Melissa Bank
In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me. And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.
~ Melville Herman
The idea was to measure everything and "make measurable" that which could not clearly be measured, to quote Galileo. That testable world was then subject to observation, hypotheses, and repeated experiments, forming what we now call the scientific method. And that method, we now know, can be applied to any study of nature, including the human body and its diseases.
~ Meredith Small
Indeed he had worn that piece of furniture - or symbol of bone-laziness - into such a shape as made the descent of any other body than his own into that crater of undulating horsehair a hazardous enterprise.
~ Mervyn Peake
Debe ser molesto estar hecho de carne —comentó él en tono meditativo—, pues tienes que dormir, comer y beber. Claro que, por otra parte, tienes cerebro, y eso compensa todos los otros inconvenientes
~ Baum, L. Frank