Quotes About Being Used For Your Body

#1. The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.

Arthur Jensen

#2. With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.

Edmund Waller

#3. A body can get used to anything, even to being hanged, as the Irishman said.

L.M. Montgomery

#4. For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion - even sexy - -despite being overweight by conventional -standards.

Boy George

#5. I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

Paloma Faith

#6. Ah," he said. "I had an ... artistic disagreement with the director of the panto. As it happens, I take issue with the objectification of women in Cinderella, and the reliance on shoes as a means of identification. Surely you understand.

Maureen Johnson

#7. I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further and further. Best of all, mine has been a life of loving and being loved. What a tragedy that all this will disappear with the used-up body!

Richard Goldschmidt

#8. You do form a cadre of people that you trust and who are good at their jobs and who know you and what your quirks and foibles are. It makes making movies very collegial and a lot more fun.

Joe Dante

#9. My mother always said to me, 'You're going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can't take no for an answer'.

Halle Berry

#10. The human spirit is so utterly one with the body that the term "form" can be used of the body and retain its proper meaning. Conversely, the form of the body is spirit, and this is what makes the human being a person.

Pope Benedict XVI

#11. My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#12. When you're used to being at a point where you're deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting to be 5.5 percent body fat and seeing veins in places you shouldn't see them, it kind of skews your understanding of what is normal and OK.

Matt McGorry

#13. When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology ... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.

Alfonso Cuaron

#14. Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.

Desmond Tutu

#15. The human body is not an instrument to be used, but a realm of one's being to be experienced, explored, enriched and, thereby, educated.

Thomas Hanna

#16. In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as judge, jury and executioner.

Kirby Page

#17. I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep to find for words.

Ruth St. Denis

#18. Then she would wander through fields, over simple, poor land, looking carefully and keenly all round her, still getting used to being alive in the world, and feeling glad that everything in it was right for her - for her body, her heart, and her freedom.

Andrei Platonov

#19. I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.

Ben Kingsley

#20. I used to be able to eat and drink whatever I wanted. But now, when I'm in a suit and tie all the time, sitting and being driven, you can just feel your body.

Aaron Schock

#21. The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep.

Maynard Jackson

#22. I got used to it, in a way, being this sack of skin full of problems, because having a body doesn't give you the right to have one that works correctly. Having a body doesn't seem to give you any rights at all.

Catherine Lacey

#23. Love is the problem of an animal ...

Ernest Becker