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Quotes About Body

The Hebrew view of humanity is very different from the Greek view. There is no trace of dualism. The Hebrew word for body (gewiyyâ) occurs only fourteen times in the Old Testament5 and never stands in contrast to the soul (neeš).
~ George Eldon Ladd
However, psych? and pneuma are not strictly interchangeable but refer to a person's inner life viewed from two points of view. Pneuma is one's inner self viewed in terms of relationship to God and to other people; psych? is the individual as a living being, as a human personality, the vitality of a person viewed from the point of view of her or his body and flesh.
~ George Eldon Ladd
The local congregation is not part of the church; the universal church is not thought of as the sum and total of its parts; rather, the local congregation is the church in its local expression.
~ George Eldon Ladd
I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.
~ George Gallup
Since the atoms are indestructible, the disintegration of human body after death should be actually considered as the dispersion of the separate filaments (except probably those forming the bones) in all different directions.
~ George Gamow
Mhm, Kate, the chief of security. Sexy. Who better to guard my body than the woman who owns is?" "Curran, I will punch you." "Rough play." Curran pretended to shiver in excitement
~ Ilona Andrews
He chuckled into my hair. My body decided this would be a fine moment to remember that his body was wrapped around mine and his body was muscular, hard, and hot, and my butt was pressed against his groin. Cuddled up by a dragon. No, thank you. Let me off this train. "If you keep wiggling, things might get uncomfortable," he said into my ear, his voice like a caress. "I'm doing my best, but thinking about baseball only takes you so far.
~ Ilona Andrews
Mhm, Kate, the chief of security. Sexy. Who better to guard my body than the woman who owns it?" "Curran, I will punch you." "Rough play." Curran pretended to shiver in excitement.
~ Ilona Andrews
Besides, if I'd decided to pull Carver's spine out of his body, I would've done it already." "Can you actually do that?" Curran frowned. "I don't know. I mean theoretically if you broke the spine above the pelvis, you could, but then there are ribs . . . I'll have to try it sometime.
~ Ilona Andrews
Vain. Terminal fear of T-shirts or any other garment that would cover his pectorals.
~ Ilona Andrews
I kept thinking while I was pushing, I'm going to get huge. I'm going to get huge!" she said.
~ Ina May Gaskin
Stand or kneel with one hand on your pubic bone in front and the other on your tailbone. Notice how far apart your hands are. Now lean backward as far as possible (taking care not to hurt yourself) and continue to notice how far apart your hands are. Next, lean forward until your torso is parallel to the ground.
~ Ina May Gaskin
our bodies must work pretty well, or there wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.
~ Ina May Gaskin
When she starts to understand that being amused and grateful actually moves the process of labor along more efficiently, she starts to work toward these feelings herself. Hard work may continue, but she now has the heart for it. Instead of fearing her body, she experiments with trusting it.
~ Ina May Gaskin
I tried to think these thoughts but they remained intolerably abstract, while a pain in my body told me what was real.
~ Iris Murdoch
We think with our body, with its yearnings and its shrinkings and its ghostly walkings.
~ Iris Murdoch
He was conscious of his body as a heavy cold horrible container. He had the feeling, coming to him as the memory of a dream, of being a prisoner waiting to be tortured. The extremity of pain was yet to come. And even now he was denied to comfort of self-pitying misery and warm tears.
~ Iris Murdoch
It's all okay, it's all beautiful; but ah fear that this internal sea is gaunnae subside soon, leaving this poisonous shite washed up, stranded up in ma body.
~ Irvine Welsh
This internal sea. The problem is that this beautiful ocean carries with it loads ay poisonous flotsam and jetsam … that poison is diluted by the sea, but once the ocean rolls out, it leaves the shite behind, inside ma body. It takes as well as gives, it washes away ma endorphins, ma pain resistance centres; they take a long time tae come back.
~ Irvine Welsh
The trick was to consume as quickly as possible; in doing it this way there was a sense that the body could be cheated.
~ Irvine Welsh
Ah felt a paralysis ay emotion as time stretched out. A pervading numbness was setting in, like a dentist's anaesthetic, spreading through ma body.
~ Irvine Welsh
The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind.
~ Irvine Welsh
The vandalism time perpetuates on the human body.
~ Irvine Welsh
Crying with a raw power and unselfconscious abandon as the tensions ebbed from her body
~ Irvine Welsh