Body Quotes

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Don Herold

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody.

Author Unknown

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

Seneca

Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

Anne Sexton

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

Milton R. Sapirstein

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... Regardless of what they say.

Barbara McClintock

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Mark Twain

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Bob Dylan

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

Richard Pryor, Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004

The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!

Theodor Herzl

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Edward Dahlberg

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.

James Arthur Baldwin

Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.

Woodrow Wilson

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

Seneca

By the end, everybody had a label - - Pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

Jerry Rubin

The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

Jimmy Breslin

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Lord Chesterfield

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

J. Krishnamarti

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket".

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Denis Watley

A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.

Author Unknown

Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Edvard Munch

Shun praise. Praise leads to self - Delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.

H Hahn Blavatsky

My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - My dearest pleasure when free.

Mary Shelley

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

Gertrude Stein, The Geographical History of America (1936)

Everybody wants to be somebody nobody wants to grow.

Johann von Goethe

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Earl of Chesterfield

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.

Helen Rowland

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do and find the cure all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

Richard Feynman