Exercise Quotes
2359 quotes by 1680 authors
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Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.
— Vera Nazarian
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…“white supremacy†is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not…
— Bell Hooks
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A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch…
— Virginia Woolf
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Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
— Ray Bradbury
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I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how to be happy…
— John Green
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I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative;…
— Bob Ross
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Exercise is for people who can't handle drugs or alcohol.
— Lily Tomlin
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All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
— George Orwell
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In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe…
— John Gardner
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Dress loose,take a great deal of exercise ,and be particular about your diet and sleep sound enough,the body has a great effect on the mind.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The word 'jihad' has nowhere been used in the Qur'an to mean war in the sense of launching an offensive. It is used rather to…
— Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose…
— M. Scott Peck
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I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It…
— Jay-Z
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The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
— Michel de Montaigne
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The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to…
— Orhan Pamuk
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We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment - the environment will…
— Aron Ralston
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If the work of our sanctification presents us with difficulties that appear insurmountable, it is because we do not look at it in the right…
— Jean-Pierre de Caussade
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If you want to achieve your objectives, you have to be prepared for a daily dose of pain or discomfort. At first, it's unpleasant and…
— Paulo Coelho
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For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and…
— Haruki Murakami
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True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or…
— David Foster Wallace
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