Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

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.

And the nice thing is that we're talking about modest exercise, not two hours in the gym every day.

Mark Richardson

Any form of exercise that raises your heart rate and leaves you slightly breathless, if done on a regular basis, is extremely beneficial.

As far as we are concerned, Labor Day is a legitimate venue for the workers to exercise their constitutional right to freedom of assembly.

Stanley Hauerwas

Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I have also written myself into being a Christian.

Something like Deckard Cain is great; it doesn't ruin your voice. But games that involve violence or battle or mutating and stuff like that really does take a toll on your voice. And I've even had to start to go to a voice guru kind of guy to do exercises to try to save and get back some of what I lost.

Kofi Annan

a technical exercise, a juridical exercise, and we need to keep it pure.

Francis Beaumont

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

About 75 officers are involved, and we're going to be doing this once a year now. One huge exercise a year, and then we'll be doing small table-top exercises during the year also.

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.

Laura Wright

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

This is an energized program, a heart-pumping experience, to exercise your heart. We will keep you moving.

It really is an epidemic. Lack of meal structure, lack of variety and lack of regular exercise.

Mike Mills

It's not perfect. I have problems with it. But as a learning experience, it was a great practice exercise.

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

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.

This is not a trivial exercise. There were network deployment issues and various planning to do with this kind of migration. But we're now in a beta-testing phase with our select mobile users.

Janet Evanovich

I ran three miles, staggered into the lobby, and took the elevator back to my apartment. No point to overdoing this exercise junk. --Stephanie Plum

Ethan Coen

It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.

Frank Herbert

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

George Henry Lewes

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.

George H. W. Bush

We know what works: freedom works. We know what's right: freedom is right. We know how to secure a more and just and prosperous life for man on earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.

Harold Acton

Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.

Harold Bloom

It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.

H. G. Wells

About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.

Jean Baudrillard

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

Jay-Z

I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.

Byron White

As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court.