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Quotes About Physical

My toe as a lethal weapon!
~ Azar Nafisi
A hint of - dare I say? - animism has entered into the scientific worldview. The physical world is no longer either dead or passively obedient to the laws.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
An animal is the sum of its behaviors, its community dynamics. Not just the physical body.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Dellarobia noted they were not a perfect physical match: Nelda plump and rosy-cheeked, her mother fine-boned. The resemblance blazed in their wide brown eyes and the way they nodded, the gnomy caps bobbing. Mother-daughter adventurers. She felt a pang of longing, as she often did in church. Everybody had a mother and a God; those were standard issue.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Physical pleasure was such a convincing illusion, and sex, the ultimate charade of safety.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The clock's second hand swept past the twelve. I unloaded a final flurry of elbow strikes and stepped back. The adrenaline dump was largely depleted, but I still felt tense. Usually a workout helps with that. Not this time.
~ Barry Eisler
Some New Testament writers, such as the author of Hebrews, used Platonic concepts to illustrate parallels and correspondences between the spiritual and physical worlds (Heb. 1: 1–4; 9: 1–14). The book's famous definition of Christian faith is primarily a confession of Platonic belief in the reality of the invisible realm (Heb. 11: 1–2).
~ Stephen L. Harris
In our quest for short-term returns, or results, we often ruin a prized physical asset -- a car, a computer, a washer or dryer, even our body or our environment.
~ Stephen R. Covey
el énfasis del doctor Covey en la necesidad de que las personas nos renovemos, y su convencimiento de que el liderazgo y la creatividad nos obligan a hacer uso de nuestro potencial físico, mental y espiritual;
~ Stephen R. Covey
My waist is a 30. The jeans are a 28. When I fart, the Reeboks blow off.
~ Steve Kluger
The second analog-era mechanism that encourages serendipity involves the physical limitations of the print newspaper, which forces you to pass by a collection of artfully curated stories on a variety of topics before you open up the section that most closely matches your existing passions and knowledge.
~ Steven Johnson
The greatest athletes aren't interested in the greatest risks. I mean, sometimes they're taken, sometimes not, but those physical risks are a by-product of a much deeper desire to take creative risks. Don't be fooled by the danger. In action and adventure sports, creativity is always the point.
~ Steven Kotler
The brain may be a physical system made of ordinary matter, but that matter is organized in such a way as to give rise to a sentient organism with a capacity to feel pleasure and pain. And that in turn sets the stage for the emergence of morality.
~ Steven Pinker
If we dig even deeper to the roots of words, we unearth physical metaphors for still more abstract concepts.
~ Steven Pinker
Though we cannot logically prove anything about the physical world, we are entitled to have confidence in certain beliefs about it. The application of reason and observation to discover tentative generalizations about the world is what we call science.
~ Steven Pinker
Conceptual metaphors point to an obvious way in which people could learn to reason about knew, abstract concepts. They would notice, or have pointed out to them, a parallel between a physical realm they already understand and a conceptual realm that they don't yet understand. […] They would be the mechanism that the mind uses to understand otherwise inaccessible concepts.
~ Steven Pinker
I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way.
~ Sophia Bush
I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.
~ Dominique Dawes
The human body is something that I truly love, above all else.
~ Giorgio Armani
I discovered that running actually gave me both physical and mental clarity. I love it.
~ Mallika Chopra
I love action. I love doing fight scenes, I always have.
~ Kit Harington
He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay