Etty Hilsum quote: "A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face."

Don't be afraid to kneel down. Kneeling down is a powerful gesture of humility that even the Heavens...
JOHN B. BEJO

My diplomatic position will not consist of going and kneeling down in front of George Bush.
SEGOLENE ROYAL

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half a...
C.S. LEWIS

Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.
BILLY SHERWOOD

ALLAH, n. The Mahometan Supreme Being, as distinguished from the Christian, Jewish, and so forth.All...
AMBROSE BIERCE

I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind...
TAYLOR SCHILLING

I'm so used to kneeling down and praying,
VALERIE BROWN

The kiss comes hotter and faster than before. Our lips move quickly, a hunger grows between us that ...
KATIE MCGARRY

My face becomes a Picasso sketch, my body slicing into pieces.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulti...
SIMON NEWCOMB

If you think you can stand to know what you’re made of, try kneeling before God.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH

Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.
EVELYN GLENNIE

He slides his hand over my cheek, one finger anchored behind my ear. Then he tilts his head down and...
VERONICA ROTH

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
FRANK ZAPPA

I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather...
SYLVIA PLATH

If someone makes you feel like a loser, and brings you on your knees, make it an opportunity to pray...
RAJWIN CHANDY

I jump for joy every day. My body pulses with joy, and my vibration soars. I feel amazing.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDER

It's a little strenuous. You're standing, kneeling and reaching in, looking underneath, making sure ...
SHANA PROVOST

Hearing is a form of touch. I hear it through the body, by opening myself up. Sometimes it almost hi...
EVELYN GLENNIE

I can line up these moments of violence, precariously as dominoes. Sometimes I worry they will all f...
JENNIFER PATTERSON

Maybe I could just James Bond my way down the cable if I draped the scarf over it, clinging to the e...
KATIE MACALISTER

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourn...
BIBLE

Sometimes my motion is off or my speed is off. I'm trying to fix some things. Sometimes I get down o...
BRITTANY STASSANO

Your body is made of two things: your will to do, your ego, and the physical form you have received ...
OSHO

My eyes were stinging, my body shaking, and my heart seemed to be just aching deep in my chest. (......
KERI ARTHUR

But illness does not always write itself upon the body, the sickness I search for is hidden deep wit...
SARAH SHUN-LIEN BYNUM

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
ALANIS MORISETTE

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
ALANIS MORISSETTE

Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
TERESA COLLINS

The first step in awareness is to be watchful of your body. Slowly,slowly one becomes alert about ea...
OSHO

The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest, down through my body, out along ...
SUZANNE COLLINS

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a te...
GEORGE ELIOT

My knees will not tremble at the sight of a King but I will kneel down before a man of humility.
PRINCESS MALEIHA BAJUNAID CANDAO

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ZHU ZHU

It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.
AMITABH BACHCHAN

The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Thro...
SUZANNE COLLINS

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m...
MARIA CALLAS

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, som...
ALICE SEBOLD

Reggie is a (great) block-out guy and Ruben will go down there and battle. Sometimes, the ball just ...
CARMELO ANTHONY

Often I find my mind drifting to moments where you held my hands, your soft lips graze against mine ...
M WARFIELD

Keith traced my face, traced my hands and traced my body as the crickets chirped a love song and I l...
AISHABELLA SHEIKH

I’m not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together. The pai...
SUZANNE COLLINS

Did you enjoy the sight of me kneeling before you?
SARAH J. MAAS

Where the clouds reach down to kiss the earth, This is the place of my rebirth. In my numbered days ...
RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON

For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherev...
RACHEL CUSK

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m...
MARIA CALLAS

At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I fee...
HERMANN MAIER

Together kneeling, night and day, Thou, for my sake, at Allah's shrine, And I--at any God's fo...
THOMAS MOORE

I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and...
DICK CAVETT

The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. Aside fr...
FRIDA KAHLO

Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and ...
TOM HODGKINSON

My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of ...
ANDREW WEIL

I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, wor...
GLENDA MILLARD

The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest down through my body out along my...
SUZANNE COLLINS

Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned ...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS

Eating right has made the biggest difference in my body.
MEKHI PHIFER

My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are abo...
GARRETT HEDLUND

I feel real good, ... My body fat is down. My weight is in a good area. I'm not sure if it's the bes...
BRENDAN HAYWOOD

I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body f...
DOUG JONES

I'm a go-hard type. It's in my DNA. I physically prepare my body as if I'm a trained ath...
USHER

I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at ...
GLENN HODDLE

My lovers suffocate me! Crowding my lips, and thick in the pores of my skin, Jostling me through str...
WALT WHITMAN

After we made love he took a piece of chalk and made an outline of my body.
JOAN RIVERS

From as far back as I can remember, I was always insecure about my looks, whether it was my flat che...
TWIGGY

Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me,...
KIMBERLY WILLIS HOLT

You’re just using me for my body.” “You don’t have a body,” I’d remind him.
“Thr...
DARYNDA JONES

Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head.
LOUIS C. K.

I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would wo...
SALMAN KHAN

My voice rings down through thousands of years to coil around your body and give you strength, you w...
RITA MAE BROWN

Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild.
MARKUS ZUSAK

The first half hour of my run is for my body. The last half hour, for my soul. In the beginning the ...
GEORGE SHEEHAN

I keep my beauty regimen as natural as possible. I wash my face four times a day. In the beginning o...
TENA DESAE

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.
JACK DEMPSEY

I would rather lie facedown on the ground
and use my body as a bridge,
than stand proud ...
KAMAND KOJOURI

God, you're so sweet.” He holds my face in his hands and kisses me deeply. I slowly unzip his hood...
LILLY AVALON

'If its meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down...
, I GOT THIS: HOW I CHANGED MY WAYS AND LOST WHAT WEIGHED ME DOWN, 2012

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JOë BOUSQUET

His words were a lethal caress as he said, “Did you enjoy the sight of me kneeling before you?
SARAH J. MAAS

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BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a long...
JOHN BURNSIDE

My legs, especially, I shake sometimes. Over the last year my speech is slowing down.
WALTER BENTSON

The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If ...
CHARLES DE LINT

Over the last couple of games it's been real physical. We have games back really quickly and sometim...
TYLER HANSBROUGH

Coconut oil mixed with olive oil is what I put on my body every day; I put rose hip oil on my face. ...
NIKKI REED

I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own par...
COLLIN C. PETERSON

Sometimes I wish I could step outside of myself for a while. I want to leave this worn body behind, ...
TAHEREH MAFI

I drink coconut water before my workouts. It has just the right amount of calories and electrolytes ...
JENNIFER MORRISON

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.
JACK DEMPSEY

If you're comfortable with yourself, then it's sexy. Maybe people think I look sexy because I feel s...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dr...
ARSENIO HALL

For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation o...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN

My coach told me to put my shoulders square and my head down to push it through (the line). My line ...
ERIC WALKER

I've always been a blue collar guy, and I think it shows in my body of work and the way my caree...
RILEY SMITH

My body is labelled an age in the form of a number. My mind is as old as all the bodies I have had. ...
JACK TYME

It was crazy, just physically on the body. It tears you down. We played 70 something games (in baseb...
GAVIN DICKEY

A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.

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A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.

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