Quotes About Body Figures

#1. From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it when fade away.

W.G. Sebald

#2. Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.

Hippocrates

#3. In advanced meditation there are methods and formations of joining the mind with the various aggregate aspects of the universe, fusing it, dissolving it, sometimes thousands of times in a microsecond or outside of time.

Frederick Lenz

#4. 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

#5. Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

#6. [I]f you want instant, reflexive support for the US government's police and military powers, MSNBC is the place to turn these days.

Glenn Greenwald

#7. If I met me, I would say a quick hello and then think that I was a really nice girl.

Britney Spears

#8. Outside, the clear-cut strokes of the town clock counting

Joseph Conrad

#9. To have a true investment, there must be a true margin of safety. And a true margin of safety is one that can be demonstrated by figures, by persuasive reasoning, and by reference to a body of actual experience.

Benjamin Graham

#10. I wanted to make sure that 'Up' wasn't a 3D movie about a man who sails his house to South America. It's a movie about an old man who sails his house to South America that also happens to be in 3D. So the first thing is always the story.

Pete Docter

#11. As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, "Don't worry about it, Bob ... if you can see it, it's obsolete."

Bob Hope

#12. You cannot improve one thing by 1000% but you can improve 1000 little things by 1%.

Jan Carlzon

#13. Magnus grinned. Black hair and blue eyes are my favourite combination.

Cassandra Clare

#14. Who could be happy in a world of podiums and microphones?

Susan Cain

#15. The word 'truth' applies to a man's dignity.

Simon Soloveychik

#16. I saw white figures. Twice I fancied I saw a solitary white, ape-like creature running rather quickly up the hill, and once near the ruins I saw a leash of them carrying some dark body.

H.G.Wells

#17. Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

Auguste Rodin

#18. The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes
geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.

Madeleine Vionnet

#19. I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold