Feet Quotes - Page 41

A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.

I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.

Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward.

No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.

I like champagne because it always tastes as though my foot's asleep.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

A curse on him who begins in gentleness. He shall finish in insipidity and cowardice, and shall never step foot in the great liberating current of Christianity.

There are certain things you learn to do as a parent - using every single part of your body because you're multitasking all the time. You're holding the baby and you're closing the door with your left foot.

If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.

You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.

Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to loose, but which a high moments seems to start up again from the deepest rhythms of my own body. How often have I had this longing for an infinite walk - of going unimpeded, until the movement of my body as I walk fell into the flight of streets under my feet - until I in my body and the world in its skin of earth were blended into a single act of knowing.

[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only time will tell. For example...] The Talmud relates a story about two people who wanted to travel by boat. One broke his foot and was unable to make the trip, while his friend got on the boat. The one who missed the boat cursed his misfortune. A few days later, however, he heard that the boat sank and all the passengers drowned.

We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.

There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet that was a hell of a pitch.

I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?

A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet

I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.

Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

Ledley King would get the ball off you without you even noticing he's the only defender in England who doesn't hold onto you, and he sometimes still gets the ball off my feet easily.

It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but apart from making you feel warmer, it wouldn’t do any good. You could say it was unfair, and that was true, but the universe didn’t care because it didn’t know what “fair” meant. That was the big problem about being a witch. It was up to you. It was always up to you.