Exercised Quotes

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I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or… — Dan Savage
I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where… — Sherri Shepherd
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which… — Adam Smith
Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues. — Tony Snow
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted… — Anthony Trollope
Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love… — Ellen G. White
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave… — Mary Wollstonecraft
We were promised that we would have Jehovah, Jesus Christ, as our Savior and Redeemer. He would assure that we would all be resurrected. And… — Henry B. Eyring
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under… — C.S. Lewis
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are… — James Madison
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word. — Martin Luther
...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity… — Michel Foucault
How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be,… — Joel Salatin
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by… — Ayn Rand
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the… — James G. Frazer
She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a… — Gregory Maguire
The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in… — John Dewey
There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised. — Anton Szandor LaVey
The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent,… — Michel Foucault
I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in… — John Patrick Shanley

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