Body Quotes

One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.

~ Dan Brown

Dissection ... teaches us that the body of man is made up of certain kinds of material, so differing from each other in optical and other physical characters and so built up together as to give the body certain structural features. Chemical examination further teaches us that these kinds of material are composed of various chemical substances, a large number of which have this characteristic that they possess a considerable amount of potential energy capable of being set free, rendered actual, by oxidation or some other chemical change. Thus the body as a whole may, from a chemical point of view, be considered as a mass of various chemical substances, representing altogether a considerable capital of potential energy.

~ Michael Foster

Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.

~ Carl Ludwig

The rope longed-for her beloved, the ceiling hook. The suspended body; a harbinger of good news. Love was lost. Love was found.

~ Chirag Tulsiani

The key to the Hercules Method is to focus your mind, body and spirit towards one goal. By bringing all three into alignment, the physical enthusiast can bring all of them under conscious control. Such control is the key to change.

~ Justin Jordan

The disciplined soul hardly needs Yoga to control the body it temporarily resides in.

~ Aniruddha Sastikar

Cath wanted to go back and rewrite every scene she'd ever written about Baz or Simon's chests. She'd written them flat and sharp and hard. Levi was all soft motion and breath, curves and warm hollows. Levi's chest was a living thing.

~ Rainbow Rowell

She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

Then there are those who think their bodies don't exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o'clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock. They make love between eight and ten at night. They work forty hours a week, read the Sunday paper on Sunday, play chess on Tuesday nights. When their stomach growls, they look at their watch to see if it is time to eat. When they begin to lose themselves in a concert, they look at the clock above the stage to see when it will be time to go home. They know that the body is not a thing of wild magic, but a collection of chemicals, tissues, and nerve impulses. Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock. As such, the body must be addressed in the language of physics. And if the body speaks, it is the speaking only of so many levers and forces. The body is a thing to be ordered, not obeyed.

~ Alan Lightman

The body is an organ of memory, holding traces of all our experiences. The land, too, carries the burden of all its changes. To truly see and understand a landscape is to see its depth as well as its smooth surfaces, its beauty and its scars.

~ Kristen Iversen

If you are divided from your body you are also divided from the body of the world, which then appears to be other than you or separate from you, rather than the living continuum to which you belong.

~ Philip Shepard

When bodies talk, a hand brushing across a face declares love the tongue never speaks. When bodies talk, eyes make promises and lips keep them in the silent transfer of vows of the heart. When bodies talk, a steady stare and firm glance becomes a rod of correction. When bodies talk, they speak to us all in quiet whispers, heart-to-heart, and soul-to-soul, in soundless conversations.

~ Stella Payton

I refuse to stay a prisoner to my body. I am going to free myself.

~ Leigh Hershkovich

Your body and the environment around you may reflect the disturbing and unusual activities unfolding across the globe as the planet evolves.

~ Elaine Seiler

Your body is a Temple. You are what you eat. Do not eat processed food, junk foods, filth, or disease carrying food, animals, or rodents. Some people say of these foods, 'well, it tastes good'.Most of the foods today that statically cause sickness, cancer, and disease ALL TATSE GOOD; it's well seasoned and prepared poison. THIS IS WHY SO MANY PEOPLE ARE SICK; mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually; because of being hooked to the 'taste' of poison, instead of being hooked on the truth and to real foods that heal and provide you with good health and wellness.Respect and honor your Temple- and it will honor you.

~ Supanova Slom

Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

That's the claim. The Arl and the Prince, both killed at West Hill. she glanced at Maric, crooking one corner of her mouth in grim amusement. Apparently your body was not distinguishable from those of regular Fereldan men and thus couldn't be found, according to the usurper.Well that's just rude.

~ David Gaider

That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit.

~ James Branch Cabell

That there was no God was a given, as far as Hope was concerned, and being nice to people and making the most of your life struck her as a reasonable enough conclusion to draw from it, and in any case what she wanted to do. But besides the spires of theology and the watch-towers of ideology, it seemed a very shaky hut indeed, and not one that offered her much shelter or would stand up in court.She couldn't see a way to make her objection to the fix a deduction from any body of thought. It came from a body of flesh, her own, and that was enough for her. She doubted that this would be enough for anyone else.

~ Ken Macleod

In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground.

~ Sierra Demulder

The real dance is a spontaneous body movement that in harmony with the beats of the music in your heart.

~ Toba Beta

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

My body is a cage that keeps me from dancing with the one I love, but my mind holds the key.

~ Arcade Fire

The old duality of body and soul has become shrouded in scientific terminology, and we can laugh at it as merely an obsolete prejudice.But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science, instantly fades away.

~ Milan Kundera

People worry so much. Just enjoy your body. That you can love. And you're alive.

~ Francesca Lia Block

The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.

~ Pat Conroy

You are a human being, not a human body.

~ Kate Wicker

The body is the easiest thing to adjust to... It’s the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.

~ David Levithan

...love comes from the head and not the heart. Of the entire body, only the head matters.

~ Kim Thúy

The human body is the most ordinary of things, yet also the most extraordinary.

~ Will Forest

Our body always tells us what it wants and needs—the question is whether we are listening.

~ Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.

~ Flannery O'connor

Every secret of the body was rendered up--bone risen through flesh, sacrilegious glimpses of an intestine or an optic nerve. From this new and intimate perspective, [Briony] learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew: that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.

~ Ian Mcewan

I wanted her body and soul, but body first.

~ Philip Sington

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body’s breath, and the strings’ wails and moans are echoes of the body’s music. It is the body’s vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations.

~ Anaïs Nin

Do not keep the slanderer away,treat him with affection and honor:Body and soul, he scours all clean,babbling about this and that.

~ Kabir

Towards the end of the season it is not bad to have the body. To have experienced joy as the mere lifting of hunger is not to have known it less.

~ Jorie Graham

My body is tired as worn out rug, but my brain (if i had) is always full of curiosity, jumping around for seeking new funs. If they could learn how to be cooperative each others, my life could be way easier... sigh*

~ Hiroko Sakai