Muscle Quotes 

Mass, time, magnetic moment, the unconscious: we have grown up with these symbolic concepts, so that we are startled to be told that man had once to create them for himself. He had indeed, and he has: for mass is not an intuition in the muscle, and time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.
Jacob Bronowski
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The difference between a fast bowler and a good fast bowler is not extra muscle but extra brains.

Fred (Frederick Sewards) Trueman

— 1964  FreddieTrueman's Book of Cricket.

Tags: difference, fast, bowler, good, extra, brains

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Money and muscle, that’s what I want; to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it. Money won’t do that altogether, because if a man is a weakling, all the money in the world won’t enable him to soak an enemy himself; on the other hand, unless he has money he may not be able to get away with it.

robert e. howard

— From a letter to Harold Preece (c. June 1928)

Tags: Money, what, want, able, damned, thing, away, wont, altogether

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Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle this way or that.

william wordsworth

— William Wordsworth, The Borderers, Act III.

Tags: Action, transitory, step, blow, motion

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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment; in these qualities old age is not only not poorer, but even richer.

Marcus Tillius Cicero

— In Erdman Ballagh Palmore Ageism: Negative and Positive (1999, p.128)

Tags: speed, physical, dexterity, great, things, achieved, reflection, force, character

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In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer.


— Amanda Schull, in Sheila Roberts Joan Chen and Amanda Schull Interview Mao’s Last Dancer

Tags: order, dance, professionally, you, start, young, age, matter, what

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As ‘Ashva‘ is the symbol of mobility , valour and strength and the ‘medha’ is the symbol of supreme wisdom and intelligence , the natural meaning of ‘ Ashvamedha ‘ can be taken as "the combination of the valour and strength and illumined power of intellect ". By assuming ‘Ashva‘ as the symbol of muscle power and 'medha' as the symbol of mental power, their combination makes a sacred and great deed of yajna.


— Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya, in Ashvamedha - The King of Yajnas

Tags: Ashva, symbol, mobility, valour, strength, supreme, wisdom, intelligence, natural

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   Clear the air! clean the sky! wash the wind! take the stonefromthestone, taketheskinfromthearm, takethe muscle from bone, and wash them.


— 1935  Murder in the Cathedral, pt.2.

Tags: Clear, air, clean, sky, wash, wind, takethe, bone

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I am proud that I am an Australian, a daughter of the Southern Cross, a child of the mighty bush. I am thankful I am a peasant, a part of the bone and muscle of my nation, and earn my bread by the sweat of my brow, as man was meant to do. I rejoice I was not born a parasite, one of the blood-suckers who loll on velvet and satin, crushed from the proceeds of human sweat and blood and souls.

of Bin Bin

— 1901My Brilliant Career, ch.38.

Tags: proud, Australian, daughter, Southern, Cross, child, mighty, bush, thankful

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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle — the heart.

Djuna Barnes

— Quoted in "The Way of Transition : Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments" (2002) by William Bridges, p. 204

Tags: We, adhering, life, now, our, last, heart

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But patience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it, to push its limits.

eknath easwaran

— Easwaran, Eknath (1997). Your life is your message: Finding harmony with yourself, others , and the earth. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 0786882662.  (p. 42) (work originally published 1992)

Tags: patience, can't, acquired, overnight, building, day, you, need, work

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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

dag hammarskjöld

— Statement inspired by the work of British sculptor Barbara Hepworth, quoted in The Christian Science Monitor (18 Jun 1964)

Tags: breaking, wave, contracts, obey, law, Delicate, line, gathers, body's

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Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?

jimmy hoffa

— Chapter 5, The Spoiled Brat, p. 92

Tags: Mob, guys, hell, you, think, employers, tough, when, wanted

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I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has not experimented with all styles of painting and has not comprehended their potentialities one's work is not complete. Even an abstract painter must know how to draw as well as a figurative artist. As for me, drawing has never created any problem, since I know how to draw anatomy correctly if I had to, I understand the function of muscle groups and sculpture.

guity novin

— p. 4 (Ayandegan (1973))

Tags: biased, belief, painter, grounded, strong, faultless, drawing, skills, one

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Remember the mind is your best muscle ...BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains... Ride the brain train for success....

Sylvester Stallone

— [2]

Tags: Remember, mind, best, BIG, can, move, rocks, mountains, Ride

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The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can survive at the present day.

Norbert Wiener

— V. Computing Machines and the Nervous System. p. 132.

Tags: mechanical, brain, secrete, thought, liver, bile, earlier, materialists, claimed

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Action is transitory — a step, a blow— The motion of a muscle— this way or that— 'Tis done; and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed.

william wordsworth

— The White Doe of Rylstone, l. 1 (1807).

Tags: Action, transitory, step, blow, motion, done, aftervacancy, We, wonder

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Mr. LaLanne said he performed his exercises until he experienced “muscle fatigue,” lifting weights until it was impossible for him to continue. It produced results and, as he put it, “the ego in me” made the effort worthwhile.

jack la lanne

— In "Jack LaLanne, Founder of Modern Fitness Movement, Dies at 96, New York Times."

Tags: LaLanne, performed, exercises, experienced, fatigue, lifting, weights, impossible, him

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In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained: know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me"?

james russell lowell

— Epigram. (Series II (1866))

Tags: small, things, resolute, great, keep, trained, know'st, when, Fate

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Action is transitory a step, a blow The motion of a muscle this way or that 'Tis done; and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed.


— William Wordsworth,The White Doe of Rylstone, line 1 (1807).

Tags: Action, transitory, step, blow, motion, done, aftervacancy, We, wonder

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Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.


— Ruth Gordon, L'Officiel (Summer 1980)

Tags: Courage, important, strengthened, use

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The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

— Austrian-American actor, producer, investor, author, philanthropist, activist, politician and former professional bodybuilder

Tags: not, who, else, someone, from, champion, Divides, pain, area

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If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus ' fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness ; not by force but by sacrifice . Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win ; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.


— A.W. Tozer, in The Parish Newsletter of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church April 2014

Tags: man, plan, redemption, endless, bloody, conflict, reality, salvation, bought

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[P]atience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

eknath easwaran

— Eknath Easwaran, Your life is your message (1992).

Tags: Patience, can't, acquired, overnight, building, day, you, need, work

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The one thing that was really cool about L. Ron Hubbard was that he really got the concept that if people united, and not in some airy-fairy way, but if they united and they put their, you know, muscle and brawn together and they worked really hard, you could create a better civilization.


— Kirstie Alley — A&E Staff (December 14, 1998). "Inside Scientology". A&E Investigative Reports (A&E Network). Retrieved on 2007-11-01. 

Tags: one, thing, cool, Ron, Hubbard, concept, people, united, you

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Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.

walt disney

— As quoted in The Quotable Walt Disney (2001)

Tags: child, born, blessed, vivid, imagination, grows, flabby, bright, pales

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