Body Quotes - Page 184

You wouldn't run a marathon the day before you run a marathon, you need to leave some sort of surprise for your body.

I don't say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.

When I played, Old-Timers Day was my favorite day of the whole season, because I got to share a locker with one of the great Yankees... It was an out-of-body experience.

It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)

This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved.

Progress is not automatic, it depends on what we do every day. So any statement of ownership of our own bodies, however that occurs in our individual lives or our community or our collective lives, is crucial.

What I am feeling in myself, and what is happening to my physical body, to some extent, and what is happening to me mentally, is not a depression, is not a death. It is a transformation. It is a transcendence.

To be a mother is a magical experience. The whole body is transformed by this.

I don't disagree with seeing a Rubens of a nude body, but I don't believe in a nude body in action. With Rubens, thank goodness, they aren't in action.

Nobody knows what the future is, except for wizards.

All men are body conscious. If they say they're not, they're lying.

I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

I have learnt a lot about my body since my heart attack. I don't drink as much now as before.

Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.

It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to ascertain, with the utmost certainty, that our earth has not always been covered over by the same external crust, because we are thoroughly assured that the organized bodies to which these fossil remains belong must have lived upon the surface before they came to be buried, as they now are, at a great depth.

When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered.

Our body is the temple of our spirit.

I wish they weren't called the 'Bush tax cuts.' If they're called some other body's tax cuts, they're probably less likely to be raised.

Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes.

I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.

The body is the substance of the stone.