Exercised Quotes

201 quotes by 169 authors

I am proud of my husband, Marcus, the love of my life, and his Swiss heritage. Even though I have been a dual citizen since… — Michele Bachmann
I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars. — Erma Bombeck
Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my… — Daniel Boone
Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes… — Julie Burchill
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised… — Noam Chomsky
From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between… — William Ames
Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of… — Benjamin Tucker
I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day. — BrenÃ© Brown
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others… — Eric Hoffer
The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man… — Samuel Johnson
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the… — Milton Friedman
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is… — Milton Friedman
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have… — Charles Caleb Colton
We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised… — James Madison
To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare… — Thomas Jefferson
Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence… — John William Draper
Now I have demonstrated, that the convolutions of the brain are nothing but the peripheric expansion of the bundles of which it is composed; consequently… — Franz Joseph Gall
Genius is talent exercised with courage. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the… — Jean-Victor Poncelet

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