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Body Quotes

"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first."

Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian Athlete

Body, Coaches, First, Will

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"Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body."

Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish Scientist

Body, Man, Spiritual, World

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"When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body."

Saadi, Iranian Poet

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"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

Body, Difficulties, Labor, Mind

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"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."

Edvard Munch, Norwegian Artist

Body, Eternity, Flowers

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"Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds."

Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Saint

Body, Care, Needs

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"Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual."

Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian Politician

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"It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body."

Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish Director

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"To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock."

Emma Goldman, Lithuanian Activist

Body, Fact, Prostitution, Woman

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"You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you."

Phil McGraw, American Psychologist

Body, Listening

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"If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body."

Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican Athlete

Body, Energy, Puertorican

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"Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist."

Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanese Revolutionary

Body, Environment, Israel

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"When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't."

Lucian Freud, British Artist

Body, Choice, Painting, Will

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"Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles."

Colleen Atwood, American Designer

Body, Class, Dress, Trying

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"Then you must look for a new body. That's what we call reincarnation."

Alex Chiu, American Businessman

Body, Reincarnation

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"The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate."

Max Baucus, American Politician

Body, Remarkable, Senate, World

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"The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism."

Martin Heidegger, German Philosopher

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"Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening."

Herbert Gold, American Author

Body, Light, Listening, Writer

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"If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body."

Karl Lagerfeld, German Designer

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"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."

M. H. Abrams, American Critic

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"My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline."

Michael Jordan, American Athlete

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"If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end."

Julius Erving, American Athlete

"You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'"

Joe DiMaggio, American Athlete

"The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body."

George H. Mead, American Philosopher

"I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies."

Ben Affleck, American Actor

Body, Ladies, Man, Now

"You gotta have a body."

Jayne Mansfield, American Actress

"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Body, Mind, Prose

"I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day."

Fiona Apple, American Musician

Body, Day, End, Hate

"I like exercise. I like a healthy body."

Erin Gray, American Actress

"The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind."

Menander, Greek Poet

Body, Mind, Words, Wounds

"We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once."

Logan Pearsall Smith, American Critic

Body, Conscience, Years

"Hitting Ali in the body or on the arms was like hitting a piece of cement."

Ken Norton, American Athlete

"Well, there are two kinds of stem cells: adult stem cells, which you can get from any part of a grown body, and embryonic stem cells. These are the inner- core of days-old embryos that can develop into any kind of cell."

Mort Kondracke, American Journalist

"I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms... my entire body is hairless."

Kim Kardashian, American Celebrity

"I just believe that whatever you put into your system you're going to see on your face and your body."

Joely Fisher, American Actress

"There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say."

Gamaliel Bailey, American Journalist

Body, State, Support

"Specialization is a feature of every complex organization, be it social or natural, a school system, garden, book, or mammalian body."

Catharine R. Stimpson, American Scholar

Body, Garden, School

"In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me."

William Congreve, English Poet

Body, Conscience

"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

"I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities."

Stephanie Tubbs Jones, American Politician

"The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body."

John Bruton, Irish Politician

"I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter."

Ben Nicholson, British Artist

"The body never lies."

Martha Graham, American Dancer

"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."

Marilyn Monroe, American Actress

"Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places."

John Searle, American Philosopher

"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

"Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body."

Matthew Barney, American Artist

Body, Comedy, Gravity, Tradition

"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

Jean Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Body, Causes, Destruction

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