Body Quotes

Nobody said it was going to be easy, and nobody was right.

President George Bush, quoted in Asiaweek magazine

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - And be lenient to everybody else.

Henry Ward Beeche

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

George Washington

My teen angst has a body count.

Veronica - "Heathers".

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Jef Raskin

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

E. M. Forste

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Herbert Hoove

Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

Charles Buxton

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.

Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince".

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

Alanis Morissette

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

Liberace

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Dan Rathe

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

Frank Zappa

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.

Novalis

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Norman Vincent Peale

Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me.

Albert Einstein

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848

All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer?

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.

Bryce Courtenay

I stand in awe of my body.

Henry David Thoreau

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. from Mostly Harmless.

Douglas Noel Adams

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The body is a marvelous machine... a chemical laboratory, a power - House. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels.

Theodor Herzl

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Tallulah Bankhead

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.

J. J. Fumas

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Aubrey Menen

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

Jimmy Breslin

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - - And nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

Elvin Stackman