Exercise Quotes

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Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are… — Jane Yolen
So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent.… — Bertrand Russell
If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I donâ€™t know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise. — George Orwell
It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for… — Douglas Adams
We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine patches. — Tana French
But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted… — Michel Foucault
Since the Lord will not force you to learn, you must exercise your agency to authorize the Spirit to teach you. — Richard G. Scott
Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and… — Charles Dickens
The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without… — John C. Maxwell
If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably… — Joe Bageant
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed… — George Washington
Women and our right to choose were going to be challenged with Ashcroft around. When Bush appointed Ashcroft, I went out and got me four… — Wanda Sykes
Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we… — Iris Murdoch
You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for… — Marianne Williamson
Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister. — Marian Keyes
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us. — Alan Watts
To exercise faith is to trust that the Lord knows what he is doing with you and that He can accomplish it for your eternal… — Richard G. Scott
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our… — Gretchen Rubin

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