The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
~By William Temple ~
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
~By John Henry Newman ~
The exercise I do now is a mammoth change for me because I never did any exercise ever.
~By Della Reese ~
The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
~By James Freeman Clarke ~
I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.
~By Kyra Sedgwick ~
In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
~By Mao Tse Tung ~
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
~By Alan Turing ~
Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.
~By Maureen Dowd ~
A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
~By Henry R. Luce ~
The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.
~By Pierre Schaeffer ~
If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
~By Joey Adams ~
I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.
~By Robert Casey ~
I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.
~By John Astin ~
Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
~By Sasha Cohen ~
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.
~By Tina Louise ~
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
~By Walter Gilbert ~
I like exercise. I like a healthy body.
~By Erin Gray ~
Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.
~By Red Skelton ~
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
~By Richard Mentor Johnson ~
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.
~By Roy Scheider ~
There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
~By Magnus Magnusson ~
No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all.
~By Star Jones ~
Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
~By George A. Sheehan ~
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
~By Blaine Lee ~
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
~By William Sloane Coffin, Jr. ~
The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.
~By Henry Charles Carey ~
Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.
~By Lee Haney ~
A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone.
~By Andrew H. Malcolm ~
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
~By Jacques Barzun ~
Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.
~By Michael Apted ~
In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.
~By Grete Waitz ~
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
~By Bruce Jenner ~
The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.
~By Dick Thornburgh ~
It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
~By Major Owens ~
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
~By Horace ~
On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.
~By John James Audubon ~
There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.
~By Kenneth H. Cooper ~
The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.
~By Parris Glendening ~
So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.
~By Danny Elfman ~
I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
~By L. Neil Smith ~
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
~By Daniel Bell ~
You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.
~By Courtney Thorne Smith ~
Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
~By Paul Harris ~
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
~By Jose Marti ~
I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them.
~By Ernestine L. Rose ~
Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training.
~By Lee Haney ~
In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis.
~By John Wycliffe ~
Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine.
~By Betty Dodson ~
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.
~By Kenneth H. Cooper ~
Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
~By Grantland Rice ~
I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.
~By Kim Alexis ~
It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
~By Earl Blumenauer ~
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.
~By Gene Tunney ~
It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.
~By Mark Rylance ~
I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
~By Taylor Dayne ~
The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.
~By Lee Haney ~
Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.
~By Daniel Boone ~
The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?
~By Robert Dale Owen ~
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
~By Hugh Blair ~
I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.
~By Bob Weir ~
No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.
~By Michael Scheuer ~
Exercise is labor without weariness.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.
~By Donald Norman ~
To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.
~By Kim Campbell ~
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech.
~By Ron Davies ~
And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.
~By Julie Bishop ~
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.
~By Edmund Barton ~
For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
~By John Ralston Saul ~
The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.
~By Dick Thornburgh ~
And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position.
~By Joe Miller ~
He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.
~By Herb Alpert ~
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
~By Max de Pree ~
The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.
~By Shannon Miller ~
When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.
~By Lindsey Buckingham ~
Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
~By Cher ~
When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn't on a diet.
~By Liv Tyler ~
Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.
~By Patrick MacGill ~
I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.
~By Guy Clark ~
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
~By William Godwin ~
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
When I get my heart rate up, I get good exercise and I think it's good for a lot of things, plus it's not hurting my hips right now.
~By Mike Ditka ~
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
~By Mark Twain ~
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