Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Wright

This exercise of options will facilitate our growth plans into the next decade.

They think I'm crazy. They say, 'Find something better to do.' It's good exercise, though.

Frank Bruno

They (the owners) have to exercise their options for other leases, and they didn't see that we were in any position to work with them, ... I thank them for trying to work with us.

All of life is the exercise of risk.

A lot of staff use the labyrinth as well, to relieve stress and get exercise.

Max Beerbohm

Americans have a perfect right to exist. But he did often find himself wishing Mr. Rhodes had not enabled them to exercise that right at Oxford.

Jacob Sullum

You're talking about protecting people from their own decisions, ... What you put in your mouth and how much exercise you get, that's pretty personal.

You don't have all that many rights when a police officer confronts you, but when you exercise them, they become very powerful.

Gretchen Bleiler

Eat lots of fresh vegetables, drink water, exercise often, and meditate daily.

You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise.

Gretchen Rubin

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Herbert Spencer

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

Henry David Thoreau

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as well as by application. It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics. The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical.

Henry David Thoreau

The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics.

Erwin Rommel

Winning the men's confidence requires much of a commander. He must exercise care and caution, look after his men, live under the same hardships, and-above all- apply self discipline. But once he has their confidence, his men will follow him through hell and high water.

Florence King

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Cate Blanchett

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.

Gottfried Leibniz

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

Jamais Cascio

Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.

Jai Courtney

I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.

J. R. R. Tolkien

If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don’t know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise.

Iyanla Vanzant

Most of us have just learned to exercise our survival muscle. It's time to build our victory muscle.

Isaac Asimov

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Immanuel Kant

If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.

Jennifer Hudson

The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.

Jennifer Hudson

Whenever I’d try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, I’d take myself through a series of simple tasks so I would get up and go. 1. Get up. 2. Find your house keys. 3. Put on some shoes. 4. Grab your iPod. 5. Walk out the front door.

Jennifer Hudson

Extreme exercise doesn’t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It doesn’t work that way.

Jeff Bridges

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

George Saintsbury

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.

George Sand

The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.

Jenna Fischer

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.