Quotes of: Body-needs Keyword

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.

The Hobbit

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening

A blanket isn’t the solution, a blanket is the problem. I say we burn all the blankets, along with the bodies of the unbelievers. 

A brick and a blanket walk into a bar

If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels.

Bring Up the Bodies

...this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash.

Bring Up the Bodies

Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

It made Craze smile, despite wishing most of his body parts would find new homes and leave him in peace.

The Backworlds

Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body.

Brain Droppings

Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space.

The Black Interior: Essays

Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.

The Book of My Lives

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

The Beauty Myth

The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.

Bioenergetics

By all means, tell the cops about the crazy robot lady with the black leather body suit and the Kill Bill sword. Hope you like straitjackets.

Bounty

And afterward, in the small cabin, they'd do this, this tangle of bodies, this blurring of the edges that kept people distant and lonely.

Beauty Queens

If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.

Bread & Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table, with Recipes

sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.

The Book Thief

Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.

The Crime of Olga Arbyelina

When the soul has left the body, it belongs to death. And it cannot be taken back without a price.

City of Fallen Angels

A fit body gives you confidence. And there's nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you'll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

Virat Kohli

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Doris Lessing

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and act...

Edward Weston