Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Crichton

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

Michael Crichton

Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.

Mary Baker Eddy

Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?

Marquis de Lafayette

Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights.

Mark Frost

The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.

Marvin J. Ashton

You owe it to yourself to keep fit. No matter how busy or how involved you are, you should have some type of physical program to keep the body in tune.

P. T. Barnum

You must exercise your caution in laying your plans, but be bold in carrying them out.

Paul Dudley White

I favor parking a few miles from the office and walking to work. You get the benefit of exercise and besides it is easier to get a parking space.

Mary Wollstonecraft

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Marshall McLuhan

Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists.

Michel de Montaigne

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

Michel de Montaigne

The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own; and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.

Michael Sandel

There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health.

Michael Sandel

Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time, there are strictures against idolatry, which is a kind of overreaching and confusing human beings' role with God's.

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.

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.

Thomas Jefferson

In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the laws, and private individuals. Among these last, the poorest laborer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest millionaire, and generally on a more favored one whenever their rights seem to jar.