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• The miser, starving his brother’s body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

  Theodore Parker

  Topics in Death, Soul

  Tags in Great, Poor, Body

• Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

  Theodore Bikel

  Topics in Work

  Tags in General, Except, Artist, Body

• The natural movement of one’s soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Natural, Body

• I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

  Thomas Merton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Universe, Body, Make

• The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Function, Carry, Body, Around

• The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Body, Community

• The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happens, Need, Body, Sometimes, Human, Create

• Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in War, World, Great, School, Body

• Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Love, Sacrifice

  Tags in Heart, Body

• We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Beauty, Children

  Tags in Heart, Find, Body

• In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morning, Whole, Body, Man

• Anatomy is destiny.

  Sigmund Freud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Body, Destiny

• If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o’ mine o mother o’ mine.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Topics in Mother, Soul

  Tags in Prayer, Body, Make

• My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.

  Johnny Depp

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Tattoos, Body

• In my case, the body of work stands for itself… I think my work has been representative of me as a man.

  Sidney Poitier

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Body

• Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

  Robert Southey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Things, Body, Order, Mind

• The body is the soul’s poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

  Robert Herrick

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Poor, Body, House

• Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

  Richard Steele

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reading, Body, Mind

• A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.

  Roy H. Williams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Device, Body, Bridge

• I don’t want my body to look like a man’s. I just want to tone my body.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Body