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"Bones didn’t share any of my qualms about suddenly holding an arm that wasn’t attached to a body anymore. He just grabbed the ghoul by his other arm and began thumping him over the head with the loose limb. I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not."
"Any situation was better faced with an empty bladder, a clean body, and a lack of morning breath."
"You totally value and respect your body as you get older."
"You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive."
"But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body."
"Pay attention to your body. Is this the only place where they should live."
"I don't have a political bone in my body."
"wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried towards it."
"If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth, but to different points from different sides."
"Just as a lamp waved in darkness creates a figure of light in the air, which remains for as long as the lamp repeats its motion exactly, so the universe retains its shape by repetition: the universe is Time's body. And how will we perceive this body? And how operate on it?"
"God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies."
"Ever'body's askin' that. "What we comin' to?" Seems to me we don't never come to nothin'. Always on the way."
"We disjoint the mind like the body."
"I'm the best. That's why I'm so relaxed out there. You've got to have some arrogant bones in your body, especially to be a pitcher in the big leagues."
"The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides."
"Your body is the house you live in. If you destroy it...you have to leave!"
"I like to go to old versions and find out what effect beats and scales have on your body, how they can transport you."
"I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him-they were part of his “road,” the infinite range of experience that always had to remain open to fuel his work."
"For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another."
"No one in this earthly prison of the body has sufficient strength of his own to press forward with a due degree of watchfulness, and the great majority [of Christians] are kept down with such great weakness that they stagger and halt and even creep on the ground, and so make very slight advances."
