Quotes of: Heavenly-bodies Keyword

That's a man's vital spot, the helpless thing he loves. ("Jane Brown's Body")

The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

God will save you. Surely you're forgetting that God saves souls rather than bodies.

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild.

Getting the Girl

Now that her spirit had left, I’d thought she would feel light. Then I realized it was the spirit that carries the weight of the body and not the other way around.

Glow

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.

The Good Thief

I don’t expect you to except me, but I do expect you to accept me.

How to put out forest fires with your naked body

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

God knows our hearts. There is no need for an idle formula or an intermediary. No need for language either: God is beyond translation.

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