Exercise Quotes

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Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification, — Marilynne Robinson
Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others… — Blake Mycoskie
Exercising underwater also creates tremendous benefits by challenging your body in ways you can't on dry land. — Laird Hamilton
It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings. — Ramsay MacMullen
It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits… — Nikolai Berdyaev
If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life. — Henry David Thoreau
More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may… — Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has… — Marcus Aurelius
A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon… — William Hazlitt
It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our lives seldom belies… — William Hazlitt
I was so bad with the food and alcohol in Nashville. If you saw me naked compared to what I looked like when I did… — Gwyneth Paltrow
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises,… — Carl Jung
He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them. — Sun Tzu
Your beliefs and thoughts are wired into your biology. They become your cells, tissues, and organs. Thereâ€™s no supplement, no diet, no medicine, and no… — Christiane Northrup
In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be looked… — Alexis de Tocqueville
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his… — Ben Jonson
May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this… — James Madison
[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and… — James Madison
For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all… — Felix Frankfurter
I have an easy tendency to stumble and fall, which is not a good thing in an 84-year-old guy, so when I brush my teeth,… — Walter Mischel

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