Exercise Quotes

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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe… — Alice Morse Earle
In a weird way, [hockey] is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. — Michael Vartan
Before the (Olympic) trials I was doing a lot of relaxing exercises and visualization. And I think that that helped me to get a feel… — Michael Phelps
No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than wrestling. He will… — Hugh Leonard
Running is always an exercise in humility. — Kristin Armstrong
The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as many of the… — Thomas De Witt Talmage
Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul, to taste, without… — Paul of the Cross
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the… — Jane Austen
Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other. — Florence King
I did not want to turn to playing golf because golf is about as much exercise as shuffling cards. — Bill Cosby
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself… — Susan Sontag
When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must… — Sheena Iyengar
There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts. — Rene Descartes
Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags. — Guy Clark
No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination. — George Henry Lewes
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his… — Thomas Jefferson
No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination. — Thomas Jefferson
I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results… — Thomas Jefferson

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