Bodies Quotes
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"As the ice melted, we fell in love—slowly. I just wish the ice were in two glasses of vodka, and not surrounding our bodies."
"I miss her like 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, and 5 misses 8. When we made love, our two bodies formed one spiral that seemed to cycle to the sky."
"You are not your body. You are the sum of all your actions, and they live on after your body dies. You may be mortal, but your brand is eternal."
"How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves."
"Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds."
"We are to count on this fact that we are dead to sin's rule, that we can stand up to it and say no. Therefore we are to guard our bodies so that sin does not reign in us. So we see that God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we can now resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours."
"That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories."
"However, I don’t understand why people insist on pitting the concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can’t they see that spiritualism and science are one? That bodies evolve and souls evolve and the universe is a fluid place that marries them both in a wonderful package called a human being. What’s wrong with that idea?"
"Without passion, the earth will be full of hollow bodies devoid of love, relationship, religion, art, science and technology"
"Sometimes, people don’t need our homes to live in or our bodies to lean on. All they need are our hands to lift them up."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"Your country can be a footstool for God, if he finds people in all spheres of life who will prepare their bodies for the Great King"
"But if ever I try to mend, some other bodies would instantly break, would instantly be fragments."
"Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives."
"The difference between men and women is this--if you catch a woman butt-naked, she tries to cover the private parts with her hands. A man will sit there just like you found him even if he doesn't have much to be proud of."
"Women are women…How can they ignore their bodies, their looks, and above all, their dresses!"
"Men and women…they are interested in each others bodies first. Other things come later."
"More often than not, the ideal breast is an invented breast. Decolletage, the tushy breast, is an artifact of clothing. Naked breasts don't dance cheek to cheek--they turn away from each other. Breasts vary in size and shape to an outlandish degree, but they can be whipped into an impressive conformity, and because we are human and we can't leave anything alone, we have whipped away."
"Two things have always ruptured up and through hegemony: art and bodies."
"I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated God and the Mind, and I shall consider human actions and appetites just as if it were a Question of lines, planes, and bodies."
"How quickly bodies came to love each other, promise themselves to each other always, without asking permission. From the mind! If only she could give up her mind, let her heart swell, inflamed, her brain stepping out for whole days, whole seasons, her work shrinking to limericks."
"Those who control life, and the bodies of women, control the money and hold the power. Women who are kept indoors, cannot make money and will not hold any power."
"Adrian had always found it amusing that a guy could be drilling Stacia up her ass while she considered herself to be a virgin. Her intent had been to present herself as such when she found "Mr. Right."
"As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,For they are women's children, and we mother them again.Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!"
"our society is unequal, and bodily difference is used to justify that inequality."
Emer O'Toole, Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently
"In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie."
"Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? Why return to Shrewsbury when it would all be like Peking? Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul."
"Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside."
"I ... am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go."
"Nobodies are created by bad attitudes and sin. God had no time creating nobodies!"
"I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?"
"Each one of us also can become an image or likeness of God if we, like Jesus, the firstborn, give our bodies to him"
"Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person.We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence."
"God gives us His spirit , while we give Him our bodies by fully submitting to Him and doing His will"
"We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires."
"The comedy in our lives was those first few weeks we lived together in Paris: Our bodies desired one another, our souls opened for one another. We experienced all of the happiness and anguish of first love. Those first few weeks in Paris, we barely touched lips; yet the few times we did, it had the force of a collision of stars."
"Those who have darkness in their minds turn their bodies into darkness as well! Life is colourful; be like a rainbow, use every colour! Don’t get stuck in one colour, be colourful! Black, red, yellow, green, let all the colours be your colours! Those who have colourful minds will have colourful bodies as well!"
"Holographic Theory shows that it is possible for our bodies to make decisions based on the experience of others."
"I think that we were both the same star in the beginning of the universe and as the star exploded we drew apart. Our atoms merging into two different bodies, but over time our atoms found a way and found each other again."
"We worshipped a great white body that was an avalanche of good news, and we slit it open in every part. “That can’t go through the mail,” the postman gasped, “because that is a super-stabbed body!” The super-stabbed body rose up, with many butterknives sticking out of it, and said, “I AM the mail.” It had so many lovers."
"I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the mattress and Saskia drew in close to me and placed her open hand on my chest, her mouth near my shoulder; her breath, my breath blew out the candle, and I held my lost Wanderess with tenderness until sweet sleep overcame us."
"We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else."
Penn Jillette, God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
"I have voted to legalize recreational incarnations. We should no longer jail people in a body just because they have chosen to incarnate in this dimension for fun. Are you guys with me on this one?"
"When we die, our bodies turn to dust,” he says. “If you were nobody of consequence, you're forgotten unless you do something worth remembering.” When he looks my way, I purse my lips and look down. “Otherwise, you're just another place marker in the ground. These buildings will rot here, their bodies are above the ground taunting us with what we did wrong as a people. Reminding us of the evil we're capable of. They are constant."
"Just as our parents' souls revolted against God, their bodies revolted against their souls, to which they had been subject. And they realized 'that they were naked."
"Discrimination is not just racial now. It’s also about the kind of body parts you have."
"Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?"
"There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected."
Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
"These are the ruinsI mapped onto my body so I might always be lost."
"Our bodies won't have secrets now."
"Let us also acknowledge that the hearts which suffer the most from our wars are those of mothers. Their vital voices have been left out of the political equation for too long. An Iraqi or American mother cries the same as an Israeli or Afghan mother. The eyes of a mother who has suffered the loss of a child can destroy the soul of anyone who gazes upon them. More souls become casualties of war than physical bodies."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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