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 ~
Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
~By John Erskine ~
The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.
~By Felix Adler ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all.
~By Star Jones ~
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise.
~By Grenville Kleiser ~
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 ~
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 ~
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.
~By Patrick MacGill ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
~By Titus Livius ~
Walking is great to be used as an exercise program.
~By Lee Haney ~
Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.
~By Roy Scheider ~
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 ~
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.
~By Adrian Edmondson ~
If you exercise your mind, you're not going to get sick.
~By Rob Walton ~
The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.
~By Jason Statham ~
They actually bought me for Daredevil 2, but they have to exercise the option.
~By Joe Pantoliano ~
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
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 ~
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 ~
I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they arise at 6:00 a.m., do some sort of exercise, eat breakfast and then sit down and produce words for a three to four hour period.
~By Donald McKay ~
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 ~
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.
~By Kim Alexis ~
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 think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.
~By Howard Coble ~
Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
~By George A. Sheehan ~
For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.
~By Shannon Miller ~
To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.
~By Al Oerter ~
We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party.
~By Jim Walton ~
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 dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
~By Billy Sunday ~
My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself.
~By James Welch ~
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 ~
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.
~By Red Skelton ~
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 ~
So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.
~By Paul M. Glaser ~
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 ~
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 ~
We were made to exercise. We feel better.
~By Bob Greene ~
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
~By Adam Smith ~
The exercise I do now is a mammoth change for me because I never did any exercise ever.
~By Della Reese ~
I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you don't exercise and do the other two, I still don't think it's going to help you that much.
~By Mike Ditka ~
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 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 is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.
~By Lee Haney ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
~By Fanny Kemble ~
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 ~
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 ~
In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
~By Ken Thompson ~
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 only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
~By Jack LaLanne ~
There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
~By P. J. Harvey ~
In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.
~By Grete Waitz ~
Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.
~By Henry Taube ~
It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
~By Ed Smith ~
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.
~By John Keegan ~
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise.
~By Bill Toomey ~
Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.
~By Tony Snow ~
Eating properly is great. I mean you cut the fat down, cut the cholesterol out, but still you got to get your rest and you got to have some form of exercise.
~By Mike Ditka ~
Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.
~By Fritz Zwicky ~
With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
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 ~
But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.
~By Fanny Kemble ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.
~By Rob Walton ~
I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.
~By Alfredo Stroessner ~
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 ~
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
~By Jacques Barzun ~
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 ~
For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar.
~By Daniela Pestova ~
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
~By Karl Von Clausewitz ~
As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.
~By Josef Albers ~
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