Body Quotes - Page 168

I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.

But yet creation's neither crammed nor blocked About by body: there's in things a void- Which to have known will serve thee many a turn, Nor will not leave thee wandering in doubt, Forever searching in the sum of all, And losing faith in these pronouncements mine.

When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.

For common instinct of our race declares That body of itself exists: unless This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not, Naught will there be whereunto to appeal On things occult when seeking aught to prove By reasonings of mind.

Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.

And thus thou canst remark that every act At bottom exists not of itself, nor is As body is, nor has like name with void; But rather of sort more fitly to be called An accident of body, and of place Wherein all things go on.

All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around.

The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body.

If you eat one less candy bar or donut a day, you're doing your body some good.

My body takes me everywhere easily and effortlessly.

My body is very wise; it knows how to heal itself.

My body represents perfection. I am vibrantly healthy.

Let's get back to loving our bodies and accepting them totally as they are.

[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.

If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.

He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.

Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit.

I believe that the physical is the geography of the being.

Souls and bodies should go on together.

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.

All that I would like to be is human, having a share in a civilized, articulate and well-adjusted community where the mind is given its due but the body is not distrusted

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.