Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hannah Arendt

If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

Gottfried Leibniz

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

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

George Bernard Shaw

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

Gena Lee Nolin

If you eat right and you exercise and you get breast implants, you can look like us.

Gary North

The goal of the FED, as with all central banks, is three-fold: (1) to protect the largest commercial banks from their depositors, who occasionally exercise their contractual right to withdraw currency (the ungrateful cads); (2) to control entry of newcomers into the bankers' cartel (interlopers); (3) to keep the stock market from collapsing in a panic, thereby persuading depositors to withdraw currency

George Eliot

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

Christie Brinkley

I think variety is the spice of sticking with an exercise routine, whether it's getting a dance tape one day, or getting a tape with those stretchy things to work with resistance on a different day.

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Chris Paul

Exercise and good nutrition helped make me what I am today and are critical in allowing me stay on top of my game.

Chris Hughes

I exercise most days.

George W. Bush

History will prove me right. This is an exercise in folly.

George V. Higgins

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.

George Shearing

Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.

George Orwell

Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese.

George Orwell

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

George Orwell

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

Gene Tunney

But I do say that, if you will regularly devote 15 minutes a day, preferably before breakfast, for 60 days to the simple set of exercises that I devised for conditioning men in the navy, I guarantee that you will enjoy increased physical buoyancy and mental vigor.

Gene Tunney

A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.

Gene Tunney

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.

Garry Winogrand

I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.

Gail Porter

Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.

Frederick Douglass

We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.

Felicity Huffman

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

Felicity Jones

I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.

Felix Frankfurter

For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.

Ezra Stiles

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.

Ezra Taft Benson

With good health all the activities of life are greatly enhanced... It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning.

Ezra Taft Benson

Take care of yourselves physically. Guard your health carefully. It is one of our greatest blessings. I especially encourage some type of exercise program so you can stay physically fit and physically capable in proportion to the demands on your body.

Ezra Taft Benson

Physical well-being is not only a priceless asset to oneself-it is a heritage to be passed on. With good health, all other activities of life are greatly enhanced. A clean mind in a healthy body enables one to render far more effective service to others. It helps one provide more vigorous leadership. It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning. Robust health is a noble and worthwhile attainment.

Francis Quarles

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Francis Beaumont

As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.