Body Quotes
The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980
Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else.Bruce Cockburn
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.James Arthur Baldwin
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.Will Rogers
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.Elizabeth Bowen
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.Jimmy Breslin
I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.Herbert B. Swope
Human beings are full of emotion, and the teacher who knows how to use it will have dedicated learners. It means sending dominant signals instead of submissive ones with your eyes, body and voice.Leon Lessinge
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it.S. I. Hayakawa
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
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.E e cummings
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or... of something else.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph".
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.Gloria Steinem
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.Heywood Broun
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.Michel de Montaigne
Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5
A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.Unknown
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.Zora Neale Hurston
Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.John Petit - Senn
The true Church is not an organization, nor does one join it through the noisy mechanics of denominational machinery. Rather it is a living organism, a body, and believers are joined to it by the quiet working of the Holy Spirit.Cornelius Stam
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.Oscar Wilde
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.Johann von Goethe
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.Liberace
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.Publilius Syrus
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.Baltasar Gracian
Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.Rebecca Johnson
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
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.Joe Theismann, Former quarterback
The President can bomb anybody he likes.Richard Nixon, Nixon
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
Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me.Albert Einstein
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.Sol Hurok
Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold.Zelda
