Exercised Quotes

201 quotes by 169 authors

In an experiment by Dr. Robert Emmons at the University of Californiaâ€“Davis, people who kept a â€˜gratitude journal,â€™ a weekly record of things they felt… — Marci Shimoff
Any idiot can get on a treadmill and watch TV and then take great pride in the fact they've â€˜exercised. — Mark Rippetoe
An immigration violation should not give the government license to rip up the rule book. By restricting judicial oversight and blocking public scrutiny, the government… — Jamie Fellner
Wisdom is exercised in the choices you make. — Joyce Meyer
Planted by your care? No! Your oppression planted them in America... nourished by your indulgence? They grew by your neglect of them... As soon as… — Isaac Barre
[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary… — Alexander Hamilton
So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised… — George Washington
I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned as the Lord… — J. Reuben Clark
Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward. — George Washington
You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed. That is correct,… — Alice Walker
A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the… — Thomas Hobbes
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain… — Stephen Spender
For us Christians, love of neighbour springs from love of God; and it is its most limpid expression. Here one tries to love one's neighbour,… — Pope Francis
The mind, like any muscle, must be exercised. — Marshall Sylver
Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For such people tolerance… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that… — Robertson Davies
To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing… — Thomas Jefferson
That this privilege of giving or of withholding our monies is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative, which if left altogether without… — Thomas Jefferson
Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession… — Marquis de Sade
Proverbs, and the wisdom literature in general, counter the idea that being spiritual means handing all decisions over to the leading of the Lord. The… — Graeme Goldsworthy

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