More Than A Body Quotes

#1. A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.

Geoffrey Norman

#2. When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water

Gwendolyn Brooks

#3. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Samuel Ullman

#4. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round - more than a body could tell what to do with.

Mark Twain

#5. I could describe what you look like, but that's not what I see. You are so much more than a body inside a dress Rook. You fit me.

J.A. Huss

#6. As you become multi-sensory, you begin to see yourself as a soul first and a personality second. You begin to experience yourself as more than a body and more than a mind. and the circumstances around you as meaningful and designed for your spiritual growth.

Gary Zukav

#7. A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.

John Updike

#8. You should eat more than that. It must take a lot of lettuce and carrots to keep up any kind of normal body weight.

Thea Harrison

#9. ... But I won't be your prey. There's only one hunter here." His grin sent a shiver down my spine. "I want something more from you, Sorcha Linden. More than your body.

Juliette Cross

#10. Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Carl Sagan

#11. Mind-body integration is more than a personal health strategy. It is a movement of consciousness that can change the world.

Matthew Sanford

#12. Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.

Barbara Kingsolver

#13. No one book of scripture can be understood by itself, any more than any one part of a tree or member of the body can be understood without reference to the whole of which it is a part.

Charles Hodge

#14. Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.

Michael Chabon

#15. Being a pro athlete doesn't mean you treat your body right, even though it's so important to what you do. Being a runner and training for important races has taught me more about how to fuel than swimming ever did. I realize it's a process and part of the commitment.

Summer Sanders

#16. Essence of any creature encompasses more than one realm.
Here now this body, is a vehicle of my essence in this universe.

Toba Beta

#17. For the vast majority of those who are obese - those with a Body Mass Index over 30 - their size is their choice. They choose to take in more calories than they burn. They choose to take in high fat calories over low-fat ones. They choose to fad diet, if they choose to diet at all.

John Ridley

#18. I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.

Bryant H. McGill

#19. The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind.

Cyndi Lee

#20. Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle Ages? Shylock wanted to cut a pound of flesh from the body of the merchant of Venice. Is that a fairy tale?

Varlam Shalamov

#21. There is nothing to be feared from a body, Harry, any more than there is anything to be feared from the darkness.

J.K. Rowling

#22. We can take more time and interest, and give more attention to our personal health than a hired professional can. We have learned to go get medical help, not to give it. We have learned to relay our body's needs to another, not to provide them ourselves.

Andrew Saul

#23. There's more to this amazing body than awe-inspiring abs. I have a pair of ears, too, and they happen to work superbly.

Kody Keplinger

#24. Em. Are you the Loch Ness Monster?" Archie stuttered shuffling back a step.
"Aghhh! M, M, Monster. Monster." Gordon shrieked, he turned his huge body and run further down the cavern to a boulder no more than six feet tall in the center, Gordon hid behind it.

Mark A. Cooper

#25. My body is a temple not just any boy gets to worship at. I won't do any more than I want to do.

Jenny Han

#26. The Word of truth teaches in the clearest and most positive terms that all of the dead will be raised. No doctrine of the faith rests upon a more literal and emphatic body of Scripture authority than this, nor is any more vital to Christianity.

C.I. Scofield

#27. The woman in whose body I had grown, in whose house I'd been raised was, in some vital ways, a stranger to me. I'd gone thirty years without ascribing her any more dimension than the paper dollies I'd played with as a girl with the pasted on smiles and the folding tab dresses.

Kate Morton

#28. A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.

V. Vale

#29. As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.

George Bernard Shaw

#30. Science suggests that intuition or whole-body learning is a real form of intelligence, and it works on a far larger scale than most of us have ever realized. It may be difficult to describe and is not always easy to get in touch with, but it can process information on a more sophisticated level.

Marcia Conner

#31. The fact is that everyone has ki, which is really little more than a technique of visualization allowing one to utilize the internal energy that we all have and letting it flow through the body ...

Chuck Norris

#32. You catch a lot more flies with honey than vinegar, as they say, though I warrant you get even more flies with corpses. Flies aren't too picky, when you come to it.

Thomm Quackenbush

#33. My whole body is a lethal weapon, you know. I know more ways to kill you than you know how to die.

Jonathan Maberry

#34. Most of the human body disease such as Obesity, Cancer, Heart disease are linked with our food which we eat in our day to day life. If people are eating health food than how come there be more than 50% death from heart and cancer disease alone in a developed nation such as USA?

Subodh Gupta

#35. The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.

Alison Gopnik

#36. In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.

Robert Bly

#37. Most men don't realize, it takes more than a big dick and a hard, deep fuck to make a woman come. She climaxes with her mind as much as her body.

Roxy Sloane

#38. Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it is a way of showing your appreciation and love to the loved body through her senses.

Baris Gencel

#39. My soul was a lot more battered than my body, but I couldn't see it in the mirror. Hopefully no one else could either.

Patricia Briggs

#40. I'm just grateful that my body is healthy. I want to be on this planet for a long time, so I try to eat things that make me feel good and make me strong. But I also love food and I love life: Some days having that extra bowl of pasta and a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup means more to me than being thin.

Mariska Hargitay

#41. More valuable than treasures in a storehouse are the treasures of the body. The most valuable of all are the treasures of the heart.

Nichiren

#42. A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

Andre Maurois

#43. Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart?

Augustine Of Hippo

#44. Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be changed at will. That the changing of bodies, like costumes, would make me into a different character, a character who might, finally, be alright.

Marya Hornbacher

#45. No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America.

Thomas Jefferson

#46. You wrote in a poem, "I love your body," as if love was for you embodied in the senses, and yet more than the senses together, an enveloping sense itself sensuous, as if all the body made sense.

David Plante

#47. Always stand proud in who you are,
just as you are,because you have more of a positive impact in the world and the cosmos than you could ever imagine!

Jan Porter

#48. Is it possible that power can conquer matter, that the soul makes a mightier truth than the body, that life has a meaning that survives life itself, that good survives evil as life survives death, that God, after all, is more powerful than the Devil?

Frigyes Karinthy

#49. I was always bigger than the other girls. My sisters are very, very beautiful and very skinny, and I've always had a more muscular body. So I grew up with a different mentality.

Gina Carano

#50. I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Joe Orton

#51. He was so far inside of me, body, heart, and soul, that I was almost afraid of how deep our connection was. It was about more than sex. It was about us, and we were a lot like our sex in a way. It hurt. It felt amazing.
I never wanted it to end.

T.M. Frazier

#52. Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason
you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Desiderius Erasmus

#53. A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Guy De Maupassant

#54. I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn't keep up.

Saskia De Brauw

#55. There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.

Steve Maraboli

#56. Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#57. A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious.

Napoleon Hill

#58. Hunger is more than a problem of belly and guts, and ... the satisfying of it can and must and does nourish the spirit as well as the body.

M.F.K. Fisher

#59. In a way, a man's body is more beautiful than a woman's.

David Bailey

#60. Our body parts were the trademark, we believed, of a sacred, majestic people. Now the ugliness of our situation made us begin to loathe the body we'd once loved. It was a gradual occurrence at first, more a thought than a truth, but we knew that once planted, a seed soon reveals all that it bears.

Daniel Black

#61. There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#62. I feel like a turtleneck dress that's long-sleeved and covers your entire body but is tight fitting is so much sexier than boobs spilling out, you know? So I guess I'm more into being classy sexy versus apparent sexy.

Shailene Woodley

#63. Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.

Richard Bach

#64. I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.

Wendy O. Williams

#65. Beauty in its most completeness is never found in a single body but is something shared instead between more than one body.

Ali Smith

#66. She had not understood what he said, but she took him in with a glance that made Will feel like he had just had one of those full-body MRI scans, the kind that find more things wrong with you than you ever could have imagined.

Reece Hirsch

#67. Furthermore, as the body suffers the horrors of disease and the pangs of pain, so we see the mind stabbed with anguish, grief and fear. What more natural than that it should likewise have a share in death?

Titus Lucretius Carus

#68. I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I'm a better husband, I'm a better father, if my body is physically functioning at the highest possible levels.

Willi Smith

#69. She needed him. More than just his blood or the pleasure he offered with his playground of a body, she needed him - and that was far more terrifying than becoming a blood sucking monster.

Marissa Clarke

#70. I think to take your shirt off, you need to have a great body and more than that, confidence and attitude. It's all related. A great body equals confidence, and confidence equals attitude. And when you put all three together, you get a Salman Khan! And that's not me.

Riteish Deshmukh

#71. All mysteries of human experience that are eliminated when we understand that we are a great deal more than our body and when you look very deeply at who and what the soul really is, who and what God really is.

Neale Donald Walsch

#72. Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it's all about the fit. I do the alterations myself - I'm quite a seamstress - it's the influence of my Hungarian mother.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#73. I am more than a face and a body. I am Hira. But no one wishes to know Hira.

Nalini Singh

#74. A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.

Joseph Roth

#75. The thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.

Eric Clapton

#76. There's a part of me that recognizes him on a cellular level, a part that seeks his comfort and solace, that feels more than comfortable in his arms. And when he stares at me with that deep penetrating gaze of his, my body reacts in all the right, and wrong, ways.

Siobhan Davis

#77. If we sleep more than is needful for the refreshment of the body, it is wasting the time with which the Lord has entrusted us as a talent, to be used for his glory, for our own benefit, and the benefit of the saints and the unbelievers around us.

George Muller

#78. Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

Criss Jami

#79. Maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix - not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.

Jodi Picoult

#80. Being a father is like directing Alien or Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's much more difficult than directing an episode of TV. Also, directing a show or movie lasts a few months at most, parenting lasts for decades.

Misha Collins

#81. I would let myself be taken until I was nothing more than his creation, a poetic body, the divine alternative to womankind.

Laura Elizabeth Woollett

#82. Deep squats work so many muscles in your body. Once a week, I do three sets of six, or eight of the free-bar ones, which can help out your balance and work more muscles than doing them on the machine.

Lolo Jones

#83. You're making it sound like it's more dangerous to have a slightly weird family, than a totally weird family.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#84. A great meal is an experience that nourishes more than your body.

Ruth Reichl

#85. No great difference at all, perhaps. Was my future any more certain than hers? And did I not depend for my life upon a man bound to me - at least in part - by desire of my body? A

Diana Gabaldon

#86. An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Gautama Buddha

#87. It is much easier for a woman to meditate than it is for men, innately. Their subtle physical bodies pick up the kundalini much more quickly.

Frederick Lenz

#88. Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

George Santayana

#89. There is nothing more stimulating to the senses than that of a female body freshly emerged from a steaming hot shower, bathed in oils and feminine scents ... well nothing except maybe a freshly opened package of chocolate double-stuffed Oreos.

Mark W. Boyer

#90. Claire. The name knifed across his heart with a pain that was more racking than anything his body had ever been called on to withstand.

Diana Gabaldon

#91. It was a romantic tale saying we were more than our bodies our soul lives on after death. We shed the outer body but the important bits the soul and heart lives on for eternity

Annette J. Dunlea

#92. I've found that the men worth fucking are far more good-natured about the female body in its varied forms than is generally acknowledged. 'Naked and smiling' is one male friend's only (physical) requirement for a lover.

Cheryl Strayed

#93. I think, as directors, they may recognize, more than the rest of the body of filmmakers, exactly what you do as a director, because I think sometimes the conception is if the camera isn't swinging around, and it's not pyrotechnic or worthily melodramatic, then the direction is uninvolved.

Lenny Abrahamson

#94. Death doesn't happen instantly. For a little while, you hover around your body, confused. What you want more than anything is to go home, to be safe, to know you're okay. But my life was over.

Caroline Flohr

#95. Not just my body. It's more than that. Some parts spark. Others melt. A flux of chemistry and catastrophe, the same compulsive need that keeps bringing us back together.

Leisa Rayven

#96. You can see from his form, posture, and the lazy way he carries his muscled body, that behind the mask is a man who sees more pussy than a pack of Tampax. Godfrey

L.J. Shen

#97. I had learned how it felt to want more than the sweet touch of hand to cheek or lips to palm, more than a kiss, more than an embrace. I was starting to discover that it is not only the mind that understands love, but also the body.

Juliet Marillier

#98. Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#99. Paul is saying that he has reached a place where his ego draws no more attention to itself than any other part of his body. He has reached the place where he is not thinking about himself anymore. When he does something wrong or something good, he does not connect it to himself any more.

Timothy Keller

#100. You know how they say a man's house is his castle? I think for a woman, it's her body. I feel so strongly about a woman's right to choose. This is my Zionism. It's not a "right" any more than it's a right to breathe, to take in oxygen.

Jamaica Kincaid