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Quotes about Body


Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Earvin Magic Johnson

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

Bob Dylan

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Stephen Covey

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentia effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?

George Herbert

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

D H Lawrence

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Jonathan Swift

None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.

Henry Fielding

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

Hedda Hopper

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

Joseph Heller

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

Thelma Ritter

Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body, Jenny's like to cry; For she hes weet her petticoats In gangin' thro' the rye, Peer body.

Miss Susanna Blamire and Miss Catherine Gilpin

Comin' through the rye, poor body, Comin' through the rye, She draigl't a' her petticoatie, Comin' through the rye . . . . Gin a body meet a body Comin' through the rye, Gin a body kiss a body Need a body cry?

Robert Burns

If a body meet a body going to the Fair, If a body kiss a body need a body care?

James C. Cross

I don't know very much, but what I do know, I know better than anybody else and I don't want to argue about it... A mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

James Agate

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to remount first principles, and to take nobody's word about them.

Bertrand Bolingbroke

I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.

Joan Didion

Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.

William Shakespeare

Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.

Maya Angelou

Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.

Elbert Hubbard

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Paul Dickson

Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second entry.

Paul Dickson

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

Grenville Kleiser

The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98 -Robert K. Greenleaf.

Robert K. Greenleaf

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