Bette Davis Quotes

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.

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• Our bodies are made to nurture and cuddle and all of those amazing things that come along with being a mom.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Amazing
  • Mom
  • Bodies

• We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Love
  • Light
  • Value

• Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Attention
  • Bodies
  • Our Lives

• Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Bodies
  • Harm
  • Houses

• We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

  

  Plato
  • Bodies
  • Bound
  • Oyster

• Friendship is one soul in two bodies.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Soul
  • Friendship
  • Bodies

• Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Men
  • Bodies
  • Foods

• Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing.

  

  Epictetus
  • Opinions
  • Bodies
  • Reputations

• The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Light
  • Changing
  • Bodies

• Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phænomena of Nature?

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Certain
  • Bodies
  • Powers

• Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married ...

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Bodies
  • Sell
  • Prostitutes

• Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Persons
  • Lying
  • Behinds

• Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Courtesy
  • Packs
  • Wallop

• Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Bodies
  • Holiness
  • Movements

• Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Suffer
  • Bodies
  • Spells

• Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution.

  

  Tacitus
  • Growth
  • Bodies
  • Dissolution

• I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Problem
  • Feminist
  • Hunger

• What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?

  

  Brad Gooch
  • Work
  • Road
  • Writer

• Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.

  

  Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Impact
  • Bodies
  • Heat

• I have seen salmon swimming upstream to spawn even with their eyes pecked out. Even as they are dying, as their flesh is falling away from their spines, I have seen salmon fighting to protect their nests. I have seen them push up creeks so small that they rammed themselves across the gravel. I have seen them swim upstream with huge chunks bitten out of their bodies by bears. Salmon are incredibly driven to spawn. They will not give up. This gives me hope.

  

  Kathleen Moore
  • Dying
  • Protect
  • Bodies

• Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Necessity
  • Scourge
  • Lower Classes

• I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Bodies
  • Emerging
  • Packs