Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Jaspers

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

Pamela Anderson

I feel like I'm in the best shape of my life at 45 ... I didn't know this exercise thing felt so good.

Oscar Wilde

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

Patrick Swayze

There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.

Maggie Gallagher

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

Lord Acton

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority.

John Buchan

London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.

John Arbuthnot

What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.

Billy Blanks

You can't exercise by sight because your sight will make you quit. You need to exercise by faith.

Marilynne Robinson

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,

Maria Montessori

The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.

Lauren Smith

I'm going through what exercises there are, monitoring exercise and what intensity to work at. I will also talk about getting different results for different people,

Kim Cattrall

I exercise as much as I can. If I don't exercise, I feel sluggish. i try to do 30 minutes a day.

Karl Marx

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

Kamala Harris

You got to take care of yourself. If I exercise or I eat proper foods, am I indulging myself? That's called feeding your body.

This weekend we will exercise extra vigilance in the Paris region.

Jessica Mitford

[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.

Jeremy Paxman

[Cycling] is easily the quickest way around central London, faster than bus, Tube or taxi. You can predict precisely how long every journey will take, regardless of traffic jams, Tube strikes or leaves on the line. It provides excellent exercise. It does not pollute the atmosphere. It does not clog up the streets.

Glenda Jackson

ability atrophies through lack of exercise.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise I in the primer of minor poetry.

Running is for people that can't manage their time well enough to walk somewhere.

Patrick Leahy

She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] rejected the [George] Bush administration's claim that it could indefinitely detain a United States citizen. She upheld the fundamental principle of judicial review over the exercise of government power.

Jurgen Habermas

Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these laws are legitimate simply by looking at the form of individual rights. Only by bringing in the discourse principle can one show that each person is owed a right to the greatest possible measure of equal liberties that are mutually compatible.

Jurgen Habermas

Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the exercise of political and social authority, the more it is generated for the purpose of an abstract vote that amounts to no more than an act of acclamation within a public sphere temporarily manufactured for show or manipulation.

Joseph Sobran

Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the judiciary assume, and exercise, countless powers they aren't entitled to.

Joseph Stalin

Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.

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.

Natasha Henstridge

Well, thank you. I do exercise in fact I am an exercise freak. Can't do without my regular work out. I'm not letting you in on any more of my secrets!

Marian Keyes

Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister.