Body Control Quotes

#1. Skateboarding is a way to let your body control the mind.

Shaun White

#2. I was definitely a fan of Robert Patricks character in T2. I was just really awed by his performance and the complete body control that he had, so I think maybe subconsciously, that played in the back of my mind.

Kristanna Loken

#3. I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

Lynn Swann

#4. Bean also saw how the man's body moved inside his clothes, with a kind of contained strength that made his clothes seem like Kleenex, he could rip through the fabric just by tugging at it a little, because nothing could hold him in except his own self-control.

Orson Scott Card

#5. If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

Gautama Buddha

#6. Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.

Tara Brach

#7. I am in control of the body, and as long as I am in control of the body, I will not allow it to hurt itself.

David Levithan

#8. I'm a man who likes to take control, Cynda, but I don't object to proving I deserve to be in control of a woman's body.

Eden Connor

#9. A man may have a perfect body, but if his emotions, mind, and will are not under the control of the Holy Spirit he will fail regularly and tragically as the husband, father, and follower God intends him to be.

Charles F. Stanley

#10. I am a spiritual being. After this body is dead, my spirit will soar. I refuse to let what will rot, rule the eternal. I choose self-control. I will be drunk only by joy. I will be impassioned only by my faith. I will be influenced only by God. I will be taught only by Christ. I choose self-control.

Max Lucado

#11. She blushed. It is a beautiful thing when a woman blushes; at that instant her body no longer belongs to her; she doesn't control it; she is at its mercy; oh, can there be anything more beautiful than the sight of a woman violated by her own body!

Milan Kundera

#12. I'll fight with every breath in my body to stop the out of control spending and debt that are bankrupting our kids and grandkids.

Ted Cruz

#13. The greatest comfort comes from within. Sit down comfortably. As you control your breath, let your mind watch your body. Tell yourself, "It's Ok." At this moment your soul will find peace and your body, too, will follow, finding comfort and new strength.

Ilchi Lee

#14. No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.

Mehmet Oz

#15. I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

Susan Sarandon

#16. But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your body is the enemy, how can you relax and take pleasure? Everything is about control, rather than relaxing, about holding everything in.

Nigella Lawson

#17. None of these things are foretold to me; but either to my paltry body, or property, or reputation, or children, or wife. But to me all omens are lucky, if I will. For whichever of these things happens, it is in my control to derive advantage from it.

Epictetus

#18. [Mandela] had believed all his life that you are very much in control of your own body, and, in the process of healing, your mind had to be stronger than the medicines applied. You also had to have determination to get better.

Zelda La Grange

#19. The assistant, a young man with a single-digit body mass index, looks ill at ease. He visibly struggles to control his urge to snatch the box out of Ove's hands.

Fredrik Backman

#20. The whole world, from the least to the greatest, must know the truth, so that man may understand the great laws that govern his life. He must learn to control his own destiny, to heal his own body and bring happiness to his own soul.

Ernest Holmes

#21. Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

Vic Fuentes

#22. The hundred parts of the body are all complete in their places. Which should one prefer? Do you like them all equally? Are they all servants? Are they unable to control one another and need a ruler? Or do they become rulers and servants in turn? Is there any true ruler other than themselves?

Zhuangzi

#23. We barely know each other, and I'm not a one-night-stand girl."
"I don't want you for one night," he says, fighting for control of his body back. "I want you for every night.

S.A. Wolfe

#24. Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

Nhat Hanh

#25. Her body, the nucleic force of the furious scribble, was absolutely out of control: slipping and falling and flaking off, gaining much, losing little.

Ainslie Hogarth

#26. My bottom is my deliquent daughter. I lavish praise upon her cheeks when she's well behaved and when she gets out of control, I pretend she isn't mine.

Anna Johnson

#27. whatever is happening outside, Beta, your must not let it sink into your flesh. Do not punish your body for what it cannot control.

Samina Ali

#28. The body has been used as a form of social control through the ages and how a mature economy can only achieve growth by making us feel abject, hungry and isolated from ourselves and each other. Making us hate ourselves from the inside out ensures we will overspend, over-consume and over-indulge ...

Orna Ross

#29. Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.

Caroline Knapp

#30. Unfortunately, my mind wasn't in control yesterday. My hormones were, and hormones control my body and they're impulsive bastards.

Emma Hart

#31. I'm on the world's best birth control." "Okay," he sighed. More than okay. Her body burned like fire around him and he groaned as her heat enveloped him. She moved and he moved with her, into her. "If you're sure, ma'am." "Very sure," she said, moving against him. "Learned that the hard way.

Tiffany Reisz

#32. Like my body - I may not control the expiration date, but I can certainly influence the quality of the shelf life.

Gay Hendricks

#33. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body. James 3:2

Beth Moore

#34. Some celebrities like to get behind water conservation or helping the homeless get back on their feet. Me? Body grooming control: that's what I like to step behind 100 percent.

Adam DeVine

#35. Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body.

Joseph Pilates

#36. A tattoo is an affirmation: that this body is yours to have and to enjoy while you're here. Nobody else can control what you do with it.

Don Ed Hardy

#37. Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind ... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up.

Marcel Proust

#38. We can never control
The World, but from Ourselves we are the Master.
Jan Jansen

Jan Jansen

#39. Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.

Frederick Lenz

#40. We have three children. I've finally mastered Italian. I've personally overseen charities here and in Italy for all of them and still I'm the dog. However, it does not bother me in the least ... because you are the master of me. My mind, my body, my heart. Mel, you control all of it, all the time.

J.J. McAvoy

#41. For compulsions, according to a growing body of scientific evidence, are a response to anxiety. Suffused and overwhelmed by anxiety, we grab hold of any behavior that offers relief by providing even an illusion of control.

Sharon Begley

#42. But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

Dennis Eckersley

#43. I was in good control of my body, and I kept my head still.

Dennis Eckersley

#44. 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

#45. Breath control training will change your body and mind in remarkably positive ways. It will tune your nervous system and allow you to activate the parasympathetic or sympathetic nervous systems at will, helping you to perform in a stressful environment or to excel in competition.

Mark Divine

#46. Concentration is like a leash for our mind, keeping it under control and obedient and not giving it too much room to move as it wishes.

Evan Sutter

#47. He hated it. Bennett could see it in every line of his body. Marsdon hated being out of control. He hated being in bondage. He hated submitting.
He hated it almost as much as he loved his mate.

Kim Dare

#48. Everything too fast is not good but everything too slow is also not good. You need balance. That's why I like martial arts: it always tells you how to control your body, your mind, your heart. Balance. Balance can keep the world's peace. I think that's a very good thing.

Jet Li

#49. Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.

Amit Ray

#50. Not only will I discover every single nerve and crevice in your vulnerable, and very naked body, I will devour and exploit every one of your weaknesses. I won't merely control you, Reina. I will own you.

Tara Leigh

#51. No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

Margaret Sanger

#52. I think a good role model has to be sexy. Real, empowered, self-possessed women are sexy. When you're really in control of your choices, your mood, your body, and your opinions, people find you sexy.

Amanda Palmer

#53. I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

Aaron Sorkin

#54. When my Republican colleagues talk about family values, they mean that a woman should not be able to have the right to control her own body; that women should not be able to purchase the contraceptives that they want. Those are their family values, not our family values.

Bernie Sanders

#55. I try to clear my mind of everything, I try to think of nothing. I just let my body act, the body can take control and do what it's trained to do.

Lyoto Machida

#56. Self-regulation is not simply a moral characteristic. It is biologically healthy for both your mind and the body.

Abhijit Naskar

#57. One very important domain of our lives and experience that we tend to miss, ignore, abuse, or lose control of as a result of being in the automatic pilot mode is our own body.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#58. I don't care if it hurts
I want to have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice when I'm not around
You're so fucking special
I wish I was special

Radiohead

#59. Sit down comfortably. As you control your breathing, have your mind watch your body. And tell yourself, "It's okay." Then your soul will find rest, and your body, too, will find comfort and new strength.

Ilchi Lee

#60. You can't have a women's body without having her heart, mind and soul if only momentarily.

Pushpa Rana

#61. I was his as if I had been born for that very purpose, as if my body were a puppet, and he was the puppeteer pulling the strings.

L. Duarte

#62. The beauty and the fashion industry want to control you. And the way that they do it through your body. So once they control your body they control your purse and the products you buy. Its a fantastic strategy and it's working.

Anita Roddick

#63. The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.

Joseph Pilates

#64. Don't think you can ... know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even if you can't control everything ... you can always control something. Your body - Use it ... Amuse it ... because one day ... you're going to lose it.

Jeff Hardy

#65. I'm looking for what might be called a body language. One thing I do is stick a vibrator up my cunt and start writing
writing from the point of orgasm and losing control of the language and seeing what that's like.

Kathy Acker

#66. My body was jerking and shaking, and I remembered John when he was in the Tunnels with Lena. The weird jerking and twitching he seemed unable to control.
Was this what it felt like to be in the grip of Abraham Ravenwood?

Kami Garcia

#67. You can move in and through the astral worlds once you have gained control of your subtle body. The astral worlds are the back corridors of eternity!

Frederick Lenz

#68. I hover over myself
Watching.
Mind and body separated,
Each in control
As though there are two puppeteers
Working the strings of my marionette self.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#69. Your life is shaped by the thoughts and experiences you choose - and make no mistake, the decision is always yours. I promise, when you learn to be conscious and in control of what you are focusing on, you can begin to create high vibrational experiences, which will transform and heal your life.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#70. Your body's always going through changes. It's fattening or thinning or wrinkling or blotching, and the only thing you really have control over is putting some decoration on it.

Bill Ayers

#71. It's not just self defense, it's about ... self control, body discipline, and mind discipline ... and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.

Elvis Presley

#72. The emotion called love occurs in one's body and it is under the control of another person. The other person can cause it to occur at any time.

Larry Mickelson

#73. The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.

Tim Ferriss

#74. I had to hand it to Elodie. If I'd been in control of my body, there would have been flailing and knocking things over, and I probably would have caught my clothes in the drawer. But Elodie smoothly closed the drawer without a sound, and sat down in Lara's chair like she belonged there.

Rachel Hawkins

#75. I may not be in control of anything else, but I am in control of my body.

Karen Carpenter

#76. Be real. Embrace that you have weakness. Because everyone does. Embrace that your body is not perfect. Because nobody's is. Embrace that you have things you can't control. We all have a list of them.

Dan Pearce

#77. The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.

Max Muller

#78. It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds.

Dalai Lama

#79. The writing is - I'm free from pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody tells me what to do; it's where my imagination is fecund and I am really at my best. Nothing matters more in the world or in my body or anywhere when I'm writing.

Toni Morrison

#80. If the functions of the body are left to atrophy, the quality of life becomes merely adequate, and for some even dismal. But if one takes control of what the body can do, and learns to impose order on physical sensations, entropy yields to a sense of enjoyable harmony in consciousness.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#81. She has a strange, not unpleasant sense of disconnection from everyone, as if she is floating somewhere high above her head and operating her body by remote control. Stretch lips to smile. Fold palms of hands around pram handle. Tip head towards child in motherly fashion.

Liane Moriarty

#82. 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.

Gloria Steinem

#83. When you touch me there, honey, makes my blood perspire, you got my body flaming like a California fire. Pulsing, pounding, pushing no longer in control, heatwave in my brain, smolder in my soul.

Alice Cooper

#84. I felt heat and
my body trembled
and forces
beyond my control
pulled me to him
as the music ripped
through our bodies

Lisa Schroeder

#85. I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.

Molly Crabapple

#86. We have the ability to rise up and take control of our lives, if only we stop to pay attention to the warning signs that we so often find ourselves excusing and ignoring.

Tori Kinsey

#87. I used to do ballet all the time, and I do this ballet workout: it is an amazing thing called Barrecore. It is like pulsing. It turns your legs into, like, jelly, and you feel like a Bambi; you lose so much control over your body because you're pulsing so much.

Rita Ora

#88. For me, there's nothing more masculine than when I'm completely in control of my body and can call upon my body to do whatever I want it to do.

Derek Hough

#89. There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

Publilius Syrus

#90. Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while still being slaves to their appetites. If we can't control the body and its appetites, how can we control our tongues, or overcome the emotions or anger, envy, jealousy, or hatred?

Stephen Covey

#91. There is a shadow wherever there is light, but the mind can see what the eyes can't.

Atul Randev

#92. You think of yourself
light, fast, free
free of earth, free of bondage to your body. In your 'perfect' body, you are in control, addicted to the light that keeps you out of body. You're a swan maiden, addicted to wings, addicted to spirit. You refused to eat in order to fly.

Marion Woodman

#93. Also by training you will be able to freely control your own body, conquer men with your body, and with sufficient training you will be able to beat ten men with your spirit. When you have reached this point, will it not mean that you are invincible?

Miyamoto Musashi

#94. Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor- not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.

Paul The Apostle

#95. It may seem paradoxical, but you really do experience greater happiness when you choose to stop trying to control everything. And on a spiritual level, you evolve by learning the power of surrender and of love.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#96. Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

Gautama Buddha

#97. Body: what the hell did she just say?
Brain: it's from those books ...
Body: I can't focus on the pleasure if she keeps thinking like that. You control her, make her stop.

Jay McLean

#98. A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

Sol Wachtler

#99. I wanted to. I wanted to get off the planet and back into space and not have to watch him die. Not have to watch him lose control of his body piece by piece.

And I wanted to stay here and be with him and steal every moment left that he had breath in his body.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#100. You can control what you put in your body - 100 percent. You really can control your level of fitness and how your body looks.

Sara Rue