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Quotes About Physical

Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
She doesn't stand up because her legs are too short. She's a very bad figure.
~ Leo Tolstoy
But if man, as in our society, advances only towards physical love, even though he surrounds it with deceptions and with the shallow formality of marriage, he obtains nothing but licensed vice.
~ Leo Tolstoy
What is courage—that quality respected in all ages and among all nations? Why is this good quality—contrary to all others—sometimes met with in vicious men? Can it be that to endure danger calmly is merely a physical capacity and that people respect it in the same way that they do a man's tall stature or robust frame? Can a horse be called brave, which
~ Leo Tolstoy
A spiritual wound produced by a rending of the spiritual body is like a physical wound and, strange as it may seem, just as a deep wound may heal and its edges join, physical and spiritual wounds alike can yet heal completely only as the result of a vital force from within.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He prescribed more physical exercise as far as possible, and as far as possible less mental strain, and above all no worry—in other words, just what was as much out of Alexey Alexandrovitch's power as abstaining from breathing.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The doctor declared that his physical sufferings were terrible, and he was right; but more horrible even than his physical sufferings were his moral sufferings, his greatest torment.
~ Leo Tolstoy
enormous, probably three hundred pounds and six foot four. He had a black beard and black hair. He wore tattersall pants and
~ Leo W. Banks
You can pull a muscle thinking too much.
~ Leo W. Banks
He who thinks of renouncing "physical" struggle must renounce all struggle, for the spirit does not live without the flesh.
~ Leon Trotsky
More kids are finding real sports too demanding.
~ Leonard Sax
Up through around twenty-five he'd never even thought about his back: it was a balanced, frictionless, self-regulating system. Now it felt like a busted gearbox into which somebody had chucked a handful of sand.
~ Lev Grossman
Two-thirds of his collarbone, and most of his right shoulder and biceps, now appeared to be composed of a smooth, highly polished fruitwood
~ Lev Grossman
He slid down the stone bench to her end and kissed her and bit her lower lip until she gasped.
~ Lev Grossman
If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.
~ Andrew Weil
Riding uses so many different muscles. I ride two to three horses a day, and I ride almost every day when I'm not working or traveling. You use your legs, your arms, your back. It's a very complete sport.
~ Charlotte Casiraghi
My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.
~ Charles Atlas
When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.
~ Yvonne Craig
When I grew up, one of comedy idols was Rowan Atkinson, who of course is Mr. Bean and uses physical comedy. Same with Jim Carrey. Both of those guys. And Peter Sellers. Most of my comedy idols are physical comics.
~ Rhys Darby
By giving material expression to force-forms in space, the Greeks gave divine spiritual beings the opportunity of using these material forms. It is no figure of speech but a fact when we say that gods came down at that time into the Greek temples in order to be among human beings on the physical plane.
~ Rudolf Steiner
The calluses on your feet in space will eventually fall off. So, the bottoms of your feet become very soft like newborn baby feet. But the top of my feet develop rough alligator skin because I use the top of my feet to get around here on space station when using foot rails.
~ Scott Kelly
I believe in the human form; let me find something, some method, by which that form may achieve the utmost beauty.
~ Richard Jefferies
When my grandpa was moved to physical action, you felt utter terror.
~ Liev Schreiber
I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.
~ Gero Miesenbock