Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.
~By Pierre Loti ~
But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.
~By Charles Hodge ~
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 ~
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've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
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 ~
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
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 ~
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
~By William Henry Harrison ~
Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
I think that making love is the best form of exercise.
~By Cary Grant ~
For me, it's like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I'll do, since I used to dance a lot, all the old dance exercises.
~By Delta Burke ~
Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.
~By Gene Tunney ~
Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.
~By Vince Gill ~
It's good to always do some sort of exercise.
~By Ashley Scott ~
By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I'm on the road.
~By Jack LaLanne ~
A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
~By Marshall Field ~
If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.
~By Judy Collins ~
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 ~
Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.
~By Lee Haney ~
Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.
~By Bill Moyers ~
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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 ~
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 ~
My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.
~By Don Baylor ~
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
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 ~
But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
~By Wole Soyinka ~
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
~By James Madison ~
Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
~By Ron White ~
Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.
~By Bruce Jenner ~
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
~By David Bailey ~
The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
~By Thomas Sydenham ~
We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging.
~By Kenneth H. Cooper ~
The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.
~By James Nathan Miller ~
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
~By Major Owens ~
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.
~By Richard Schickel ~
Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.
~By Linford Christie ~
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
~By Havelock Ellis ~
The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.
~By Joseph Glanvill ~
Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.
~By Patrick MacGill ~
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
~By Jack Kilby ~
He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.'
~By Roy Horn ~
So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.
~By Jack LaLanne ~
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
~By Hans Selye ~
There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
~By P. J. Harvey ~
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 ~
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
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 ~
I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that.
~By Ron Davies ~
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
~By William R. Alger ~
I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.
~By Adrian Edmondson ~
The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.
~By Jason Statham ~
In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.
~By Grete Waitz ~
Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.
~By Tony Snow ~
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 ~
About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.
~By Dan Hicks ~
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 ~
Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.
~By Roy Scheider ~
Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.
~By Tina Louise ~
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 ~
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 ~
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
~By Laurence Olivier ~
Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!
~By Johannes Tauler ~
But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible.
~By Tommy Chong ~
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training.
~By Lee Haney ~
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 ~
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
~By Aristophanes ~
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 ~
Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.
~By Boyd Rice ~
An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.
~By Peter Utley ~
You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!
~By Jack LaLanne ~
I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
~By Barry Levinson ~
Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.
~By Antonia Fraser ~
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
~By John Henry Newman ~
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 ~
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 ~
The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.
~By Kenneth H. Cooper ~
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.
~By Kim Alexis ~
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
~By Brit Hume ~
I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.
~By Helen Reddy ~
Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
~By John Erskine ~
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 ~
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 ~
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
~By Albert Bandura ~
In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.
~By Edward Albert ~
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
~By Henry Ford ~
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
~By John Owen ~
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