Quotes About Body

He had a body like coat hangers - the perfect body to hang clothes on. Stripped, he had barely a body at all.

Exercise was the rent the body charged for granting the mind space.

My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.

A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.

A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity -- he is continually in for -- and filling some other Body -- The Sun, the Moon, the Sea, and Men and Women who are creatures of impulse are poetical and have about them an unchangeable attribute -- the poet has none; no identity -- he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's creatures.

Health note: My stomach is getting out of bounds; the seams of my vendor's smock are creaking ominously.

Kennan brooded about Europe's fragility and his own superficiality. "Americanism, like Bolshevism, is a disease which gains footing only in a weakened body," he concluded with youthful certainty.

And, remember, fundamentally a thing is what it is; we live in a universe where everything—including a human mind and body—has a specific, clear-cut identity and can be nothing else. A human being is not a dog, a cat, a bird, a fish, a computer chip, or a stream of photons—"A is A" and man is man.

Since the respiratory tract must allow outside air to pass into the innermost recesses of the body, it is extremely well defended. The lungs became the battleground between the invaders and the immune system. Nothing was left standing on that battleground.

the germ theory said that minute living organisms invaded the body, multiplied, and caused disease, and that a specific germ caused a specific disease.

Disease began to be seen as something that invaded solid parts of the body, as an independent entity, instead of being a derangement of the blood. This was a fundamental first step in what would become a revolution.

AN INFECTION is an act of violence; it is an invasion, a rape, and the body reacts violently.

But influenza is not simply a bad cold. It is a quite specific disease, with a distinct set of symptoms and epidemiological behavior. In humans the virus directly attacks only the respiratory system, and it becomes increasingly dangerous as it penetrates deeper into the lungs. Indirectly it affects many parts of the body, and even a mild infection can cause pain in muscles and joints, intense headache, and prostration.

All this together is called the "immune response," and once the immune system is mobilized, it is formidable indeed. But all this takes time. The delay can allow infections to gain a foothold in the body, even to advance in raging cadres that can kill.

good judgment may require the ability to listen carefully to feedback from the body.

My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.

If you have a good spine, the gods will chase you. Nobody has psychological or emotional problems, everyone has a bad spine.

Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth.

Often, people take herbal medicines for a physical response, but what they find is that the body also responds in an emotional way to the plant medicine that they're taking.

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.

To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.