Exercised Quotes

201 quotes by 169 authors

Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and… — Porphyry
A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a… — Thomas Paine
We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of… — John F. Kennedy
The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and… — Maurice Strong
Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a… — Maria von Trapp
For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. Now I determine my weight by how my clothes feel. — Judy Reyes
Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is… — John Berger
The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do… — William Gilmore Simms
Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should be made the… — Kevin Mattson
I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to… — Clint Eastwood
The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be… — Thomas Jefferson
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most… — Thomas Jefferson
[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of… — James Madison
The money problem facing the country from 1789 to 1896 existed because Congress never exercised is authority to "coin money or regulate the value thereof"… — William Jennings Bryan
Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival. — Daniel Goleman
Our global forests are the lungs of the world, and protecting them is fundamental for our survival. When we hand these forests over to future… — Edward Davey
Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be exercised… — James Madison
Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us… — James Madison
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that… — Harriet Martineau
The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil… — Walter Lippmann

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