Quotes of: Body-image Keyword

I am a good lover, but that is not so difficult. It requires only that I pay attention, and watch and listen to a woman and her body." André Chevalier

Elizabeth's Bondage

The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

East of Eden

This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It's a quick fix of empathy.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.

Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.

The Education of the Stoic

The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.

A Fable

No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

The Gilded Age

For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.

The Grooming of Alice

He (Chuck Smith) was leery of music that moved the body more than the soul.

God's Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America

People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...

The Glass Castle

Boys, at war, so far away, will naturally droop, both in body and mind, from lack of a particular girl’s snuggling and cuddling.

Gadsby

Adam's hot Pheebs! Admit it girl. That body is like some kind of happy experiment. It's like he was manufactured in a nympho scientist's secret laboratory

Generation Dead

Minie balls and repeating rifles. That was why the body count was so high. We had trench warfare in America way before WW1. p128

The Goldfinch

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

Gaudy Night

Just say “no” to bad attitudes. They may say you are “nobody”. Yes! That’s who you are; a “body” that says “no” to evil things!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.

Gut Symmetries

I have rubbed shoulders with the rich, the powerful, and the armless. It’s how to network when handshakes aren’t an option.

How to put out forest fires with your naked body

In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.

Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.

Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

The Hummingbird's Daughter