Quotes About Physical

The question of Magick is a question of discovering and employing hitherto unknown forces of nature. We know that they exist, and we cannot doubt the possibility of mental or physical instruments capable of bringing us into relation with them.

Isabel saw the intimacy of the gestures and felt immediately empty, a sensation so physical and so overwhelming that she felt for a moment that she might stop breathing, being empty of air

She had always understood that love could have an intense physical effect; could fill a space somewhere in the chest, could turn knees weak, could raise the pulse; could intoxicate, just as could a strong martini or a glass of champagne. Could, she thought, and would…but only if you allowed it, only if you opened whatever portals of the heart needed to be opened. And some people, of course, found it difficult to do that.

In physical, exponentially growing systems, there must be at least one reinforcing loop driving the growth and at least one balancing loop constraining the growth, because no physical system can grow forever in a finite environment.

A feedback loop is a closed chain of causal connections from a stock, through a set of decisions or rules or physical laws or actions that are dependent on the level of the stock, and back again through a flow to change the stock.

Seine Knochen schmerzten. Keiner hat ihm gesagt, dass Trauer ein Schmerz in den Knochen ist, in jeder Zelle des Körpers.

A ring around the finger does not cause a nerve block to the genitals.

Sometimes the material chafed him down around his crotch; a rash had spread out along his legs from his testicles down. It made him feel more alive than he'd felt in years. He scratched his balls just thinking about that warm, itchy feeling.

Our desire for sleep, like our desire for food, obeys a law of satiation. The attempt to circumvent this law will cause impaired mental and physical performance.

What is trans? Who is trans? What makes someone trans? Are we sure that it exists as a category? And if so, are we certain that attempting to turn somebody physically from one sex to another is always possible? Or even the best way to deal with the conundrum this presents? Among all the subjects in this book and all the complex issues of our age, none is so radical in the confusion and assumptions it elicits, and so virulent in the demands it makes, as the subject of trans.

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

Materialism—an attachment to physical goods beyond their practical value—was a trap; a chain to ensnare the foolish with their own greed.

Football is not a contact sport. It's a collision sport. Dancing is a good example of a contact sport.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Spirit is the life, the mind the builder the physical the result

I punch a lot of guys on set. It's much easier than in real life as your hands don't hurt afterwards. The key is that you miss.

Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one.

How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.