Exercise Quotes

2359 Exercise quotes by 1631 unique authors

Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite – it is a passionate… — John Patrick Shanley
I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from… — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
I know that disavowal is an unusal form of betrayal. From the outside it is impossible to tell if you are disowning someone or simply… — Bernhard Schlink
Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being. — Joseph Stalin
They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise… — Stephen Covey
I ran three miles, staggered into the lobby, and took the elevator back to my apartment. No point to overdoing this exercise junk. --Stephanie Plum — Janet Evanovich
Dirk turned on the car wipers, which grumbled because they didn't have quite enough rain to wipe away, so he turned them off again. Rain… — Douglas Adams
Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate. — Michael Crichton
Government money only pays for the "liberties" the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties… — Jonah Goldberg
Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. — Philip Gourevitch
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and… — Roald Dahl
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise… — Patrick O'Brian
Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble. — Joseph Heller
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 don’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

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