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Quotes about Body


Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

Thornton Wilder

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

Jewish proverb

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Casey Stengel

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

John G. Pollard

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

John G. Pollard

For I verily, absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, . . .

Thomas Haynes Bible

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)

For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.

Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)

61 died that day in the 1st infantry..in Vietnam.. two? rows of body bags.. the fruit of war...drying in the sun.

Saiom Shriver

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.

William Makepeace Thackery

A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.

Emily Dickinson

They did the little boy turkey named Art... choke and then served his dead body with artichokes.

Saiom Shriver

There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

Steven B Seneca

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.

Steuart H. Britt

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say, this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

Joyce Brothers

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'.

Sydney Harris

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. - The Business of Life.

William Feather

It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.

James Fenton

If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

George Barzan

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

John Atkinson

Nobody can do it for you.

Ralph Cordiner

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