Physical Quotes
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"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
"The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality."
-Herbert Spencer
-Herbert Spencer
"How can I tell that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensation and my state of mind?"
-Douglas Adams
-Douglas Adams
"Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage."
-Wendell Phillips
-Wendell Phillips
"Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: 'We would be more alive if we did more of this,' and, 'Life would be more lovely if we did less of that.' Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away."
-Peter McWilliams
-Peter McWilliams
"The girls have started to turn the corner with their physical play. It was a complete 360 degrees from their last performance."
-Jason Bowen
-Jason Bowen
"All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day."
-Evelyn Waugh
-Evelyn Waugh
"[Artifacts, whether publications or oil field equipment, are] the physical manifestation of dreams, ideas, and great deeds, ... some point to successes, some point to great mistakes."
-Bruce Wells
-Bruce Wells
"The Big 12 is a physical conference, so I just need to get stronger, ... Coming out of high school, people here are a lot stronger, a lot quicker than what I played against in Alaska."
-Mario Chalmers
-Mario Chalmers
"We've found that the growth of actin is dependent on its loading history -- not just on the load it feels at one moment, as we previously thought. This means the structure of a cell has some 'memory' of its physical interactions."
-Daniel Fletcher
-Daniel Fletcher
"We have a great post presence and are physical inside. Now hopefully we will continue to play well."
-Mark Swanson
-Mark Swanson
"Our physical play wore them down. Defensively, we didn't let them inside our house. I don't think you saw too many Finnish guys in the hash marks or below and if they did get there, they were punished."
-Ryan O'marra
-Ryan O'marra
"We sailed very hard all through the race. It wasn't a technically hard leg, there were no icebergs or gales, but it was very physical, long and intense. So it makes the end result very sad."
-Neal Mcdonald
-Neal Mcdonald
"When the mind and body are in harmony, the mind works better. It gives everyone a sense of physical prowess."
-Caroline Prohosky
-Caroline Prohosky
"We both have very physical games and it is tight each time. I'm delighted that it swung my way."
-Arnaud Clement
-Arnaud Clement
"It was a big game, ... Avondale has some good athletes. We've been playing very physical. The kids have been hitting people."
-Scott Guthrie
-Scott Guthrie
"Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage--the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead."
-Howard Cosell
-Howard Cosell
"They were a physical team. They were skilled all over the place. Last year was our wake-up call."
-Chris Yoder
-Chris Yoder
"The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people."
-Avery Brundage
-Avery Brundage
"We talked at halftime about a couple of things. First thing we fixed is that we weren't playing a physical game in the first half, and secondly we moved Matt Mikhail to midfield to get more possessions on the ball."
-John Horton
-John Horton
"It's a class that fulfills all of our needs. We have a group of quality guys that are very physical and very athletic."
-Turner Gill
-Turner Gill
"They were really physical and did a great job scouting us. Our defense wasn't on par tonight."
-Charles Lee
-Charles Lee
"The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment."
-Bruce Lee
-Bruce Lee
