Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

Each human being has his or her own sexual identity and should be able to exercise that identity without guilt as long as they do not force that sexual identity on others.

Mariah Carey

I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.

Max Muller

He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he indeed is an ascetic.

Maureen Dowd

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

Matthew Lillard

A lot of times, as a clown, you find acting for a reason. It's a way to exercise yourself. If you're funny, you test yourself.

Maya Lin

Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.

John Quincy Adams

It is so obvious to every reasonable being that he did not make himself, and the world in which he inhabits could as little make itself, that the moment we begin to exercise the power of reflection, it seems impossible to escape the conviction that there is a Creator.

John Patrick Shanley

Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite – it is a passionate exercise. You may come out of my play uncertain. You may want to be sure. Look down on that feeling. We’ve got to learn to live with a full measure of uncertainty. There is no last word. That’s the silence under the chatter of our time.

John Paul Stevens

When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene.

John P. Kotter

Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.

John P. Kotter

Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.

John Owen

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

Noel Coward

Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.

Noel Coward

Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.

Nneka

I have my own way to stay focused. I work out every day. I exercise. I swim. I meditate. I breathe.

John Henry Newman

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

John Donne

We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.

John Donne

There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.

John Dewey

The educative value of manual activities and of laboratory exercises, as well as of play, depends upon the extent in which they aid in bringing about a sensing of the meaning of what is going on. In effect, if not in name, they are dramatizations.

John Dewey

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

John Candy

I know what I have to do if I want to lose weight and stay healthy: eat a proper diet and exercise. All I've got to do is apply it.

George A. Sheehan

Exercise: you don't have time not to

Garry Trudeau

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

Gabriela Isler

I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory!

Gabrielle Reece

I take the choice out of exercise. It's not an option.

Eknath Easwaran

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

Jimmy Fallon

A new study found that Americans are exercising more than ever but still not losing much weight. Not good in fact, it's all I could think about on my jog to Dunkin' Donuts.

John Bunyan

Hope has a thick skin and will endure many a blow; it will put on patience as a vestment and will endure all things (if they be of the right kind) for the joy that is set before it. Hence patience is called patience of hope,' because it is hope that makes the soul exercise long-suffering under the cross until the time comes to enjoy the crown!

Joe Bastianich

I come from a family that loves to eat, not exercise. Being fat made even walking hard.

Joe Biden

I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles.

Jimmy Reid

The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.

Jim Rogers

You don't train for only the 100-meter dash and you don't practice only the excerpts. When I prepared for auditions, I spent most of my time each day on scales and exercises to be my best in basic musicianship, and only a half-hour or so on the actual excerpts I'd be playing.

Lysander Spooner

Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.