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Quotes About Body

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.
~ Ted Shawn
In everything that moves through the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my own soul. All men are my brethren, and all things my companions.
~ Zhang Zai
Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.
~ David Bowie
In ancient times men fought with their right arms and defended with their left arms... ...the right side of the body was considered masculine and the left side feminine.
~ Manly Hall
What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.
~ Rene Dubos
A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.
~ Socrates
I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.
~ Christopher Fry
This was what men fought for, what men died for: a chance at life, and to fight on other days - the battle of your choice, of the body, or the heart, or the soul.
~ Janet Morris
Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
~ Ramana Maharshi
For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.
~ Selma Lagerlöf
Ladies love a man with shirt off, so my shirt stays off
~ Soulja Boy
Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs.
~ W. D. Hamilton
It was then given me to know that the power of revitalization of my body was mine, and I, who had been pronounced dead by man, lived strongly in the body.
~ Walter Russell
I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.
~ Antonin Artaud
The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.
~ Aravind Adiga
WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.
~ Barry Long
I can kind of fit the women's and the men's samples in a very similar way, just because of where my body is in my life, and I feel like it's modern to mix.
~ Hari Nef
I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican,' but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.
~ James Gandolfini
A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.
~ Jeremy Collier
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.
~ John Milton
The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.
~ Philip K. Dick