Physique Quotes

“Your ultimate reason for staying in this crooked world is not to imitate its devastating physique, but trying do something about its ugly appearance.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“A good woman keeps her mind right and her body tight.”
― Habeeb Akande

“I was told that Ganesha sat between Lakshmi and Saraswati. My quest to attain the blessings of both goddesses explains my physique.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

“When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I think I'll wear the Chian outfit,' he said to his body servant standing waiting for orders. Many men in Marius's position would have lain back in the bath water and demanded that they be scrubbed, scraped, and massaged by slaves, but Gaius Marius preferred to do his own dirty work, even now. Mind you, at forty-seven he was still a fine figure of a man. Nothing to be ashamed of about his physique! No matter how ostensibly inert his days might be, he got in a fair amount of exercise, worked with the dumbbells and the closhes, swam if he could several times across the Tiber in the reach called the Trigarium, then ran all the way back from the far perimeter of the Campus Martius to his house on the flanks of the Capitoline Arx. His hair was getting a bit thin on top, but he still had enough dark brown curls to brush forward into a respectable coiffure. There. That would have to do. A beauty he had never been, never would be. A good face - even an impressive one - but no rival for Gaius Julius Caesar's!”
― Colleen McCullough, The First Man in Rome

“Girls like well-built boys. Women love well-paid men.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, Divided & Conquered

“The taste of a meal is not determined by the face or physique of the cook. After all, a cooking pot has no eyes to admire or abhor the cook, even it has, they have been blinded by cooking.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Bien avant que physique et psychologie fussent nées, la douleur désintégrait la matière, et le chagrin, l'âme.”
― Emil Cioran, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“You know, dear cousin, that there are some very strangely built people: at the first glance one recognizes them as deformed, and yet on closer inspection one cannot say where the deformity lies.”
― E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Golden Pot and Other Tales

“Even in the dim light emanating from the few illuminated windows of the mansions, Charlotte could see that this man's body was athletic and pleasing to the feminine eye. This was no young, besotted whelp declaring his undying love. This was a man.
A clearly stubborn one, but a man just the same. Long and lean muscled, a trim waist and narrow hips, and strong legs encased in black breeches that he must have inched his way into. Inexpressibles. Charlotte almost sighed.”
― Olivia Parker, To Wed a Wicked Earl

“Perhaps it had something to do with living in a dark cupboard, but Harry had always been small and skinny for his age. He looked even smaller and skinnier than he really was because all he had to wear were old clothes of Dudley's, and Dudley was about four times bigger than he was. Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair, and bright green eyes. He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose. The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead that was shaped like a bolt of lightning. He had had it as long as he could remember, and the first question he could ever remember asking his Aunt Petunia was how he had gotten it.
"In the car crash when your parents died," she had said. "And don't ask questions."
Don't ask questions- that was the first rule for a quiet life with the Dursleys.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“L'homme, même physique, ne se limite pas à son organisme. L'homme ayant prolongé ses organes par des outils, ne voit dans son corps que le moyen de tous les moyens d'actions possibles. C'est donc au-delà du corps qu'il faut regarder pour apprécier ce qui est normal ou pathologique pour ce corps même. Avec une infirmité comme l'astigmatisme ou la myopie on serait normal dans une société agricole ou pastorale, mais on est anormal dans la marine ou dans l'aviation. Donc on ne comprend bien comment, dans les milieux propres à l'homme, le même homme se trouve à des moments différents normal ou anormal, ayant les mêmes organes, que si l'on comprend comment la vitalité organique s'épanouit chez l'homme en plasticité technique et en avidité de domination du milieu.”
― Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

“Being short was determined by one’s genes. Feeling short is determined by one’s environment.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Si elle veut sauvegarder son contenu philosophique, une science doit prendre conscience de ses limites”
― HEISENBERG WERNER, The Physicist's Conception of Nature.

“Impressive,' I said.

'Thank you. I've had plenty of practice drinking terrible alcohol.'

'Not that,' I gestured broadly to him, up and down. 'That.'

His eyebrow twitched. 'I've had a lot of practice on my physique, too. I didn't think you'd noticed.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“L’heure n’est plus au tangible, au corporel, au physique. Les instruments avec un manche, un bracelet, un afficheur ont rejoint le Polaroid Kodak, le bonnet de nuit et les Jeunes giscardiens dans les caves de l’histoire humaine. L’avenir est à la virtualité, au dématérialisé – au décérébré, a ajouté mon encéphale en ricanant.”
― Fabien Maréchal, L'Attendeur (de Première classe)

“Il n’y a pas de théorie de tout, car tout est théorie.”
― Abhijit Naskar, L'humain Impossible: Cent Sonnets pour Ma Famille Mondiale