Top 100 Whose Body Quotes
#1. And so I found myself in a kind of love lock: pining for the wrong person, grieving beside a woman whose body I can't touch, being given a second chance I can't find the clarity to take.
Courtney Maum
#2. 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
#3. Danny, whose body made Miller forget the world and whose soul, even marked with shadows, made Miller believe in something beyond the stars.
Brooke McKinley
#4. We'd cry great waves of love and rage for this young woman, whose resistance made our own lives look empty as nadless ball sacks and sewed-up dry cunts, a girl-woman whose body was in defiance of over stab at "living" we took and failed on a daily basis.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#5. Maybe she'd never really known her mother at all. And if you couldn't know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know?
Brit Bennett
#6. I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.
Rebecca Wells
#7. But today when people talk about the history of Hopkins's relationship with the black community, the story many of them hold up as the worst offense is that of Henrietta Lacks - a black woman whose body, they say, was exploited by white scientists.
Rebecca Skloot
#8. There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary.
Henry David Thoreau
#9. (He) killed her and dialed 7411 and carefully placed the gun. If (He) can
Kill (His) blood, won't (He) return the observers to God? Won't (He)
lay to rest the diaconate whose body and soul is confined within the high brick walls just as (he) did Efe and the four observers?
S.A. David
#10. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Alexander Pope
#11. Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can't show is the internal bond that belongs to neither alone, a fusion in which the self feels so permeable it doesn't matter whose body is whose.
Diane Ackerman
#12. Beyond his recyclable chemicals, what possible utility could The Owner of All Infernal Names find in a soldier whose body (or what remains of it) lays inert at room temperature?
John Zande
#13. If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?
Sue Rodriguez
#14. We should not weep for the arriving soul - It isn't dead. We should weep instead for the one whose body is alive, but whose soul is dead because of its alienation from that which gives it life: God.
Yasmin Mogahed
#15. You are one of the unfortunate ones whose body decays rapidly in the face of radiation poisoning. You hang your head over the toilet to vomit again and again, and die praying to the porcelain gods.
A.J. Lauer
#16. Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.
Andrei Makine
#17. A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants of his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself.
John Ruskin
#18. Here was a man who sincerely did not mind what people thought of him, and so convention had no hold on him; he was like a wrestler whose body is oiled; you could not get a grip on him; it gave him a freedom which was an outrage.
W. Somerset Maugham
#19. Jesus is returning for a bride whose body is in equal proportion to her head.
Bill Johnson
#20. I was depressed. I knew I was lost, but I had no idea how to find myself again. It was as though I was a different person, an infuriating, disappointing yet indispensable person whose body was my only home.
Yasmina Khadra
#21. We're beings toward death, we're ... two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.
Cornel West
#22. By welcoming a marginalized person whose body is wounded and by welcoming the sinner whose soul is wounded, we put our credibility as Christians on the line. Let us always remember the words of Saint John of the Cross: In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.
Pope Francis
#23. The (cancer) cells, technically speaking, are immortals. The woman from whose body they were once taken has been dead for thirty years
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#24. Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.
Patrick DeWitt
#25. You stole my car."
"Borrowed it I did, return it I will."
"Okay Yoda, can I have the woman whose body you stole back?
Amelia Hutchins
#26. There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.
Publilius Syrus
#27. I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.
George Russell
#28. I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.
Jean Reno
#29. This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.
John Nelson Darby
#30. The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.
Kenneth Clark
#31. Once you start altering your body's blueprint, things start falling apart. Some players take steroids, and two years later, after they've broken records, suddenly they have back problems, shoulder problems, arm problems. They're out of the game for good.
Charlie Sheen
#32. For God, having given her power over his only-begotten and natural Son, also gave her power over his adopted children - not only in what concerns their body - which would be of little account - but also in what concerns their soul.
Louis De Montfort
#33. To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes.
Antonio Damasio
#34. The body left behind.
The soul lives forever.
Toba Beta
#35. Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real space, spill into air, once you could hear it, once there was a typewriter, once there was a body of a typist, it was getting rid of the confines of the page.
Vito Acconci
#36. When i ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, i can feel the Spirit whisper to me, 'you tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.
Shane Claiborne
#37. When the soul has left the body, it belongs to death. And it cannot be taken back without a price.
Cassandra Clare
#38. We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
Plato
#39. For almost four billion years life had dawdled along without any detectable ambitions in the direction of complexity, and then suddenly, in the space of just five or ten million years, it had created all the basic body designs still in use today.
Bill Bryson
#40. I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.
Ornette Coleman
#41. My feet are not a good part of my body. They definitely have suffered for my art. They're, like, all bunions and blisters.
Lindy Booth
#42. As much as I enjoyed yoga courses, it was hard to make time for them. Generally speaking, my work arrangements were flexible, so it was mostly a psychological problem: it was hard to convince myself it was acceptable to go twist my body into knots for two hours when there was work to be done.
Josh Kaufman
#43. You've got my come drying between your thighs right fucking now. And bruises in the shape of my fingers on your body. You. Are. Mine. And there's nothing you can say or do to change that. Don't fucking test me, my bella, because I'm running out of patience.
Jessica Prince
#44. He was waiting for a man with a knife to come out of a doorway at him. All this time, he told me, he had been trying to steal death from her body. By confronting it himself, he would keep it away from her.
Don DeLillo
#45. Yoga is about balance, both mind and body, as well as increasing self-awareness, with by-products of better strength and flexibility.
M.E. Dahkid
#46. If we could see ourselves ... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.
Immanuel Kant
#47. The baby's body lay in a bassinet. He was the size of a half loaf of bread, his bones light as a bird's and stretched with thin skin.
Jodi Picoult
#48. Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.
Lewis Buzbee
#49. But I fired four shots more into the inert body, on which they left no visible trace. And each successive shot was another loud, fateful rap on the door of my undoing.
Albert Camus
#50. Get your body out of the way and let your spirit soar!
Ibrahim Farah
#51. When a player gets to 30, so does his body
Glenn Hoddle
#52. Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else.
Robert Breault
#53. I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#54. Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.
Nelly Mazloum
#55. My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention.
Radka Donnell
#56. 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
#57. The body consists of three parts: the brainium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain. The borax contains the heart and lungs and the abominable cavity contains the bowels of which there are five: a, e, i, o, u.
Tom Magliozzi
#58. I've had my own personal stalker. I would get nude drawings of my body with a knife and a message saying 'I'm watching you' and 'I'm going to get you.'
Erin Gray
#59. I sit on it's edge, looking down at the man who feels like he just materialized out of nowhere. My head still swims with euphoria from the moment...a moment I was just in with one man whilst sleeping next to another. Suddenly feeling dirty, I pull the sheets wrapped in front of my body closer.
E.J. Mellow
#60. Don't think of us as separate beings. Imagine that we are one body and it's been split into millions. When we sit in the mediation hall - that is unity
Frederick Lenz
#61. Regardless of what you believe in or conceive of as the functionality of Reality, the Oneness of you with all you experience in your life is an absolute
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#62. The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.
Ty Cobb
#63. I had never really done voice-over. If you've ever seen me, I'm more the communicator through body language and movement ... I'm a physical actor.
Daniel Logan
#64. An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded to a man before, and that without would or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now.
Howard Pyle
#65. To run 100 miles and more is to bring the body to the point of breaking, to bring the mind to the point of destruction, to arrive at that place where you can alter your consciousness.
Scott Jurek
#66. Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.
Victoria Moran
#67. The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#68. Place your concentration in the center of your palm. Concentrate on making that part of your palm warmer than the rest of your hand. After a while, compare the temperature in the center of your palm to another part of your body.
Ilchi Lee
#69. I am conscious of how my body signifies in every space. In every place of the world our body has a different significance.
Bocafloja
#70. I don't throw my body down on the stage at all anymore because I'm sure I'd snap like a twig.
Michael Gira
#71. True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare; the welfare of the body and that of the mind.
Ameen Rihani
#72. The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#73. Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?
Sean Hannity
#74. There is nuance now, subtext, body language, and pheromones.
Andre Agassi
#75. It's not his body
that changes
right away.
it's something
inside. he says
he wants to
be a little
weaker. i don't
understand.
i say 'thinner?'
and he says
'no, i want
to be stronger
in a different
way.' not
because of me,
but for me.
David Levithan
#76. MADELEINE HERON stared with unfocused eyes at the gleaming gray coffin that held the body of her husband.
S.K. Epperson
#77. He had been drunk over in town, and laid in the gutter all night, and he was a sight to look at. A body would a thought he was Adam, he was just all mud.
Mark Twain
#78. As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.
Lewis Thomas
#79. Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.
Thomas Nagel
#80. It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?
Hilary Swank
#81. I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#82. For as I like a man in whom there is something of the old, so I like a man in whom there is something of the young; and he who follows this maxim, in body will possibly be an old man but he will never be an old man in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#83. Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and sinful habits-and to cast out devils, rejecting evil thoughts sown by them, and extinguishing the excitement of passions enflamed by them.
Theophan The Recluse
#84. But how is this to be accomplished? "Cut away everything." The experience of "ecstasy" (standing outside one's own body) happened frequently to Plotinus: Many
Bertrand Russell
#85. There is a "yoga body" aesthetic, which is long and sinewy. I am curvy. I get praised on a regular basis, with people telling me, "Wow, you're so brave," simply for showing my curvy body. Being brave is going to war; being curvy is not brave. We need to be careful with how we use our words.
Kathryn Budig
#87. Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.
Christopher Dawson
#88. To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.
Kelley Armstrong
#89. When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#90. I have no interest in putting stuff in my body that's made in a lab.
Theo Rossi
#91. Now I know for sure the soul is an evanescent thing and the body is its temporary container, because I saw it. I saw the body with the soul in it, I saw the body with the soul leaving, and I saw the body with the soul gone.
Elizabeth Alexander
#92. When Theolyn died, the humans had built an enormous pyre and placed his body at the center. How was [Veka] supposed to know humans cremated their dead instead of cooking them? She had figured it out quickly enough, but not before Jimar and his ilk had spotted her standing at the pyre, fork in hand.
Jim C. Hines
#93. I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#94. It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
Galileo Galilei
#95. She dumped me for the quarterback after she'd played my body like a banjo. So Sad."
"I bet"
"I'm serious. I was heartbroken."
"For how long?"
"A whole week." An eternity in the life of a teenage boy.
Nalini Singh
#96. I want
you to have
this,
all the beauty in my eyes, and the grace of my mouth,
all the splendor of my strength,
all the
wonder of the musk parts
of my
body,
for are we
not talking about real love, real
love?
Mirabai
#97. Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!
Jean Genet
#98. It was important for a person not to let their body or mind become slow and dull. Oba believed it was important to learn new things. He believed it was important to grow. He thought it was important for a person to use what they had learned. That was how people grew.
Terry Goodkind
#99. I'm going for it. Every part of my body says to jump and fly, no matter how hard voices like Shay and my parents try to ground me. I understand their realism, but I don't want to look back and regret not taking the plunge.
Krista Ritchie
#100. When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.
Helena Christensen
