A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.
~By Viggo Mortensen ~
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 ~
It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.
~By Mark Rylance ~
Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.
~By John Clayton ~
Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
~By Gene Tunney ~
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 ~
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
~By Barbra Streisand ~
And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise.
~By Grenville Kleiser ~
The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.
~By Kenneth H. Cooper ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise.
~By Bill Toomey ~
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
~By John Adams ~
Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.
~By Antonia Fraser ~
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 ~
The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
~By Thomas Sydenham ~
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.
~By William Whewell ~
When doing your aerobic exercise, go at a comfortable pace until you've developed more stamina.
~By Lee Haney ~
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
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 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 ~
We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.
~By Akio Morita ~
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
~By B. C. Forbes ~
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 ~
I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.
~By Kim Alexis ~
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 ~
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 ~
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
~By Alan Bleasdale ~
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 ~
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 ~
Exercise caution, as I have advised many people.
~By George Carman ~
If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.
~By David Ricardo ~
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
~By Hugh Blair ~
I like exercise. I like a healthy body.
~By Erin Gray ~
When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!
~By David Blunkett ~
It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.
~By Vin Diesel ~
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
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 ~
He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
~By Francis Wright ~
Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.
~By Patrick MacGill ~
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. ~
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 ~
Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.
~By John C. Ransom ~
We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.
~By John Hawley ~
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 ~
The exercise I do now is a mammoth change for me because I never did any exercise ever.
~By Della Reese ~
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
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 ~
We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.
~By Raul Grijalva ~
In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.
~By Johann Arndt ~
The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.
~By Charles Hodge ~
A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.
~By Gene Tunney ~
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
~By Philip Gilbert Hamerton ~
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 ~
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
~By Karl Von Clausewitz ~
No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all.
~By Star Jones ~
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 ~
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 ~
Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.
~By Peter Singer ~
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 ~
Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.
~By Bruce Jenner ~
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 ~
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 ~
When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.
~By Tom Glazer ~
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
~By William Proxmire ~
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 ~
So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.
~By Paul M. Glaser ~
Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.
~By Tammy Bruce ~
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.
~By Joely Fisher ~
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
~By Charles Dickens ~
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
~By Aristophanes ~
Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.
~By Lee Haney ~
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.
~By John Keegan ~
The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.
~By Felix Adler ~
I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground.
~By John L. Phillips ~
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
~By Mark Twain ~
A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.
~By Sasha Cohen ~
With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.
~By Lisa Marie Presley ~
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 poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
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 ~
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
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 ~
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.
~By Leo Kottke ~
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
~By John Henry Newman ~
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 ~
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 we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
~By Hippocrates ~
Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
~By Jack LaLanne ~
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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