“Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.” BodySpiritualMoralTakenRiskMilitaryYour BodyCentreJoiningJoining The Military Author:Kevin Powers
“When you go into the causal realms you become someone else. The light vibrates very quickly. You will see that you are a concurrence of light - taken shape and form in the body you now occupy.” BodyLightFormTakenBuddhismShapesRealmsVibrateConcurrence Author:Frederick Lenz
“Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to think of your ear or one of your eyes or elbow, also familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.” IfsThinkingYearsWholeBodyEyeTakenPiecesFeetEarsPhotographYour BodyFamiliarAliensWho We AreIsolatedThink Of YouElbows Author:Paul Auster
“It's not like I've been vaulting my whole life. I haven't. So my body hasn't taken that physical beating. I'm still on the upscale.” StillsWholeBodyTakenHavensWhole Life Author:Jenn Suhr
“It seems to me that Mr. Sculley understood the very nucleus of existence, that he had kept his young eyes and young heart even though his body had grown old. He saw straight through to the cosmic order of things, and he knew that life is not held only in flesh and bone, but also in those objects - a good, faithful pair of shoes; a reliable car; a pen that always works; a bike that has taken you many a mile.” HeartBodySeemsEyeYoungLife IsOrderExistenceTakenSawsCarObjectsUnderstoodShoesBonesFleshMilesFaithfulPairsPensCosmicBikePair Of ShoesGood FaithNucleusYoung At Heart Author:Robert R. McCammon
“I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.So much for me. I am just fine.” HumansBookSoulBodyMotherHouseStarsMy OwnTakenInfluenceMinesFineDrinkGoodnessOfficeFortuneTreasureMy SoulStomachPoolRoofTheft Author:Walter Wangerin
“And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima .” MenMadeSaidBodyMightSpiritTakenEventsFitSpeechMadProphetProphecyCavesMad MenOraclesIntoxicatedVaporGentilesDelphi Book:Leviathan Source: Leviathan
“That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burdens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections, in which all, or any part of the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct.” PeopleShouldFirstsMayTwoStatesFeelingsBodyLawCertainPoliticsTakenReturnPeriodsMembersDirectElectionBurdenOppressionFormerFixedExecutivesStationsParticipatingJudiciaryVacancyExecutive Power Author:George Mason
“It's an amazing feeling to know that life is actually growing inside your body. The first time you see the ultrasound and you see the little bones and you realise that it's part of you and it's in your care is life changing and this sort of protective instinct has taken over.” KnowsFirstsLittlesFeelingsBodyCareLife IsTakenGrowingFirst TimeInstinctBonesYour BodyLife ChangingRealisingProtectiveUltrasounds Author:Halle Berry
“The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square.” HumansTwoBodyFoundPrinciplesTakenFiguresHolyProjectsPerfectionCirclesProportionConsiderationTemplesSquaresConstructionPrincipalHuman Body Author:Luca Pacioli
“Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.” MindBodyTakenPoetConnectionsMysteriousIntimatePornographyMind And Body Author:Shana Alexander
“Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding my own body or my own hands exactly like the person I'm photographing. I never knew I did that, and obviously what I'm doing is trying to feel, actually physically feel, the way he or she feels at the moment I'm photographing them in order to deepen the sense of connection.” WayFeelsTryingPersonsHas BeensMomentsShowsBodyHandsOrderMy OwnTakenConnectionsPhotographerSnapshots Author:Richard Avedon
“For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to that which is active in the mind.” MindBodyBeautifulTermTakenTastePerceptionMetaphorActivePassive Author:Thomas Reid