Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Thatcher

I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go on the day, the time, to the doctor I choose and get out fast.

Mark Twain

I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

Patrick O'Brian

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.

Patrice Leconte

I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision.

Lea Michele

You should make your diet one that best fits you and how you feel. Listen to your body. The most important thing is to exercise, drink lots of water, and take really good care of yourself.

L. Neil Smith

The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press.

Paul Michael Glaser

So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.

Oscar Wilde

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Oscar Wilde

The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

Immanuel Kant

A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.

J. K. Rowling

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

Ken Wilber

The basic idea of integral transformative practice (ITP) is simple: the more aspects of our being that we simultaneously exercise, the more likely that transformation will occur.

Kathy Najimy

Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.

Katherine Paterson

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.

Kate Chopin

Madame Ratignolle hoped that Robert would exercise extreme caution in dealing with the Mexicans, who, she considered, were a treacherous people, unscrupulous and revengeful. She trusted she did them no injustice in thus condemning them as a race. She had known personally but one Mexican, who made and sold excellent tamales, and whom she would have trusted implicitly, so soft-spoken was he. One day he was arrested for stabbing his wife. She never knew whether he had been hanged or not.

Julia Stiles

The exercise in theater is night after night you are doing the same play, but you have another opportunity to explore. It changes nightly even because of the audience and your day going into the evening of the performance. With film it's much more controlled.

Julian Baggini

No genuine choice is ever simply a matter of the arbitrary exercise of will. Take your choice of lunch today. You can't decide to want anything, but what you want will at least in part be a result of a series of other choices and judgments you've made in your life to date.

Ken Ham

For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.

Kevin O'Leary

We need physical exercise to prepare our brain for long periods of concentration

Ken Thompson

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

Ken Cohen

For optimal health, we need body and spirit, exercise (ming) and meditation, awareness of the inner world and the outer. In other words, health requires balance and moderation. The goal of qigong may be summarized as xing ming shuang xiu,spirit and body equally refined and cultivated. Cultivate your whole being, as you would cultivate a garden with attention, care, and even love.

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.

Michael Ignatieff

The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence...

Michelle Obama

When I was younger, I could eat whatever I wanted, as long as I exercised; or if I didn't exercise and just watched what I ate, I'd maintain. Now I have to do both.

Michelle Obama

For me exercise is more than just physical, it’s therapeutic.

Michael Polanyi

But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.

Seth Rogen

I eat well, and I exercise.

Ravi Zacharias

Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.

Tom Daschle

Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas-where we all understood he wanted authority to act-but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused.

Sofia Vergara

I use Spanish dancing as a way to exercise. I've done that for my whole life.

Socrates

Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.