Body Quotes
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
Maimonides
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.
Raquel Welch
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I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!
Octavia Spencer
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In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.
Warwick Davis
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
Calvin Klein
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Yes, I was beaten on every part of my body, and the marks are still on my body.
Saddam Hussein
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I live in a swimsuit so I'm really comfortable with my body.
Natalie Coughlin
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When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
Gary Sherman
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
Gabourey Sidibe
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You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.
Salman Khurshid
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I have dangerous bones in my body.
Vin Diesel
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
Paloma Faith
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As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.
Quentin Blake
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
Carine Roitfeld
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On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.
LaMarr Woodley
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when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.
P. C. Cast
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I've never had a body issue; I've never had a self-confidence issue, and there's been very few times in my life where I've felt down about the way I look or the way I feel.
Zendaya
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I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.
J. R. Martinez
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The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.
Anna Halprin
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Your body thinks radium is a great thing to pack into bone - where it kills some cells outright and scrambles the DNA of others, causing problems like cancer.
Sam Kean
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You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.
Abraham Lincoln
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I measure time by how a body sways.
Theodore Roethke