Best 5497 quotes in «body quotes» category

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent.

I'm probably better known in the US as a YA writer, I have a huge body of adult horror and fantasy behind me.

I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

Impulses of intelligence constantly create the body in new forms every second.

I'm quite insufferable about fitness, I suppose. I think it's really important, though I'm not a body nut.

I'm really glad I did not tattoo on my body 'cause I don't want them. So, permanence is a very scary thing to me, along with things that don't change at all.

I'm really interested in the repetition, the discipline, and what happens to me psychologically when I put my body to that extreme place.

I'm sharing my experience with my body with my fans, and that's why they relate to me so much.

I'm really shallow when I come to guys. I only date really good-looking, well-endowed guys, with great bodies. My friends are always going on at me. I'm like. 'I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!'

I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here!

I'm still vegetarian - no, pescatarian, because I eat fish. I eat pretty much vegan at home, but when I'm on the road, I'm a bit more flexible. That was the kind of thing I learned as I got older - being flexible with it and listening to my body.

I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.

I'm told I have the body of a god." "A Greek god, or one of those gods with the horse heads or elephant's legs coming out of their chests?" Alan asked. "Next time someone tells you that, ask them to specify.

I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.

I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.

I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.

I'm usually pretty lame when it comes to physical activity, but I'm like a Jedi on the badminton court. It's as if my body was built specifically for it - tall and lanky, with wrists like mousetraps.

I'm very happy with my body.

I'm very uncomfortable with my body, and I'm not interested in people seeing it on screen.

I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.

In 1984, my mom gave birth to my older sister, Teresa. Due to a complicated delivery, she needed a blood transfusion, and at that moment, my mom had HIV+ blood put into her body.

In 10 sessions you'll feel the difference, in 20 you'll see the difference, and in 30 you'll have a new body

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.

In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.

In all Diseases, strengthen the part of the Body afflicted.

In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.

In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My Second City (improvisation) background comes in very handy for accent and body posture.

In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.

In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is almost impossible to settle into our bodies or stay connected with our hearts, let alone connect with one another or the earth where we live.

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living.

In becoming part of the Body of Christ, sickness should have no more mastery over us than it had over the Body of Christ when He was on the earth.

Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.

Indeed, the term body (jism), organs ('arad), extent (mutahayyiz) and their like are all newly-invented terminologies. We have mentioned many a time before that the Salaf and the Imaams have not spoken about such things, neither by way of a negation nor by way of affirmation. Rather, they declared those who spoke about such matters to be innovators and went to great lengths to censure them.

Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.

In Europe people don't worry about the body.

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

I never felt scandal and confession were necessary to be an actress. I've never revealed my self or even my body in films. Mystery is very important.