Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jefferson Davis

A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.

Jeff Olson

Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics, is a nightmare for me. It doesn't work at all.

Jeff Galloway

Our bodies crave exercise, and reward us in so many ways when we do so.

Jean Chretien

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

Jean Giraudoux

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Fritz Zwicky

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.

Fulton J. Sheen

The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.

Francois Rabelais

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

George Carman

Exercise caution, as I have advised many people.

Christina Applegate

I've always tried to be pretty healthy, eating well and exercising regularly. I definitely give myself treats.

Frances Wright

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.

Frances Conroy

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

George Santayana

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

George Osborne

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

George Muller

It is true that the faith, which I am enabled to exercise, is altogether God's own gift; it is true that He alone supports it, and that He alone can increase it; it is true that, moment by moment, I depend upon Him for it, and that, if I were only one moment left to myself, my faith would utterly fail...

G. H. Hardy

A chess problem is an exercise in pure mathematics.

Jennifer Weiner

If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?

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.