Exercise Quotes
2359 quotes by 1680 authors
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Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics…
— Meg Greenfield
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How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect…
— Ellen Goodman
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Every building you come out of, there is a parasite there exercising his constitutional right to make money out of being a parasite, trying to…
— Russell Crowe
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The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession…
— Edward Gibbon
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Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is…
— Richard M. Nixon
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The only ache people have nowadays is ache in the stomach due to over eating and lack of exercise!
— Sathya Sai Baba
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A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them.…
— Richard Schickel
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The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that…
— Ralph Barton Perry
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We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.
— Julia Cameron
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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…
— Max Muller
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I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued…
— Ken Livingstone
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The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.
— Denis Donoghue
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The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above all the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is, in fact, the discovery by the…
— Yves Klein
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Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.
— Maya Lin
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The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise…
— Herbert Read
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If we do not get a universal acceptance of the constitution the likelihood of the violence continuing is there. If it had been an inclusive…
— Kofi Annan
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No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is…
— Michael Scheuer
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The IEA member countries will exercise flexibility in re-establishing their emergency stock levels through 2006, noting the need to take into account seasonal demand and…
— Claude Mandil
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Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work,…
— Roy Baumeister
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