The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
~By Claudio Hummes ~
Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.
~By Gene Tunney ~
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 ~
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 ~
The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.
~By Laurent Fabius ~
In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.
~By William Ames ~
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
~By Philip Gilbert Hamerton ~
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 ~
Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
~By Barbara Ehrenreich ~
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 ~
It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.
~By William Banting ~
The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.
~By William Ramsay ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.
~By James Nathan Miller ~
In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
~By Ken Thompson ~
Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
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 ~
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 ~
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
~By Karl Von Clausewitz ~
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
~By Bruce Jenner ~
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.
~By Gene Tunney ~
I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
~By Kenneth Robert Livingstone ~
It's good to always do some sort of exercise.
~By Ashley Scott ~
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 ~
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
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 ~
Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
~By Gene Tunney ~
There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.
~By Nancy Kerrigan ~
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
~By David Foster Wallace ~
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 ~
During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.
~By John Nelson Darby ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.
~By James Thomson ~
It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
~By Vera Wang ~
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
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 ~
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 ~
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
~By John Adams ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.
~By George Saintsbury ~
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 ~
I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
~By Taylor Dayne ~
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 ~
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 ~
I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
~By Adam Smith ~
Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.
~By Tony Snow ~
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 ~
Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
~By John Erskine ~
But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible.
~By Tommy Chong ~
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 ~
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 ~
The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.
~By Cyril Falls ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.
~By Stone Gossard ~
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
~By Bob Filner ~
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 ~
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 ~
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
~By Brit Hume ~
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 ~
All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.
~By Dario Fo ~
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
I think investments in general related to the exercise industry are going to be good for a long time.
~By Kenneth H. Cooper ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.
~By Bill Moyers ~
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
~By Charles Dickens ~
Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging.
~By Kenneth H. Cooper ~
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 ~
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. ~
A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.
~By Harlan Howard ~
We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.
~By Peter Hain ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.
~By Henry Home ~
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 ~
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
~By Major Owens ~
No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all.
~By Star Jones ~
I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work.
~By Dick York ~
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