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“I love exercise but I find it boring doing the same thing all the time, so I fluctuate between going to the gym, doing Pilates and taking dance lessons.”

Exercise Lessons Boring Gym Pilates

Author:Twiggy

“Burning the candle at both ends for God's sake may be foolishness to the world, but it is a profitable Christian exercise-for so much better the light. Only one thing in life matters. Being found worthy of the Light of the World in the hour of His visitation. We need have no undue fear for our health if we work hard for the kingdom of God; God will take care of our health if we take care of His cause. In any case it is better to burn out than to rust out.”

“I exercise as much as I can. If I don't exercise, I feel sluggish. i try to do 30 minutes a day.”

Ifs Feels Trying I Can Minutes Exercise Sluggish

Author:Kim Cattrall

“We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.”

Source: The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions

“I began to be involved (with exercise). It was a little bit like sex sometimes - you know how sometimes you're kind of disinterested, kind of uninvolved, and slowly you begin to become interested?”

Knows Kind Littles Sometimes Sex Bits Know How Involved Exercise Little Bit Disinterested

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body - and vice versa.”

“Yoga should not be just an exercise, but a means to connect with the world and with nature. It should bring a change in our lifestyle and create awareness within us.”

World Should Mean Awareness Exercise Yoga Lifestyle

Author:Narendra Modi

“The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present cultural crisis on the surface of the planet is caused by the fact that this is not a fitting theater for the exercise of imagination. It wrecks the planet. The planet has its own Eco-systemic dynamics, which are not the dynamics of imagination.”

Men Facts Lying Imagination Planets Exercise Theater Crisis Seeking Surface Dimensions Fitting Wrecks Dynamics Eco Lying Men

Author:Terence McKenna

“It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.”

Men Reason Exercise Age Of Reason

Book:THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including

Source: THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including

“I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.”

Giving Action Exercise Giving Up Not Giving Up

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power. The prime need is to change the conditions which enable these men to accumulate power which is not for the general welfare that they should hold or exercise. We grudge no man a fortune which represents his own power and sagacity, when exercised with entire regard to the welfare of his fellows.”

Source: The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt

“Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.”

Made Duty Exercise Paid Merit Pockets Officers Salary Appointments

Book:Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes

Source: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes

“When I was 25, I was in a show called 'Bajour,' and I was going to leave the show because I couldn't breathe. I couldn't sing, and I couldn't do the basic dance steps I had to do. Fortunately, two actors in the production - who were also yoga instructors - taught me some breathing exercises, and my asthma was cured that day.”

Two Shows Actors Steps Taught Exercise Yoga Productions Breathe Breathing Instructors Asthma Dance Steps

Author:Paul Sorvino

“As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.”

Men Should Hours Walks Exercise Miles Supper

Book:Philaster

Source: Philaster

“I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour during the day. I don't have any superstitious rituals or anything like that.”

Voice Hours Half Teacher Exercise Warm Ritual Superstitious

Author:Josh Young

“If I could only do one exercise, it would be dead lifting. For cardio, I dance, I ride my bike, I run and I have kids. There is a... lot of cardio just from being a parent.”

Ifs Would Be Running Kids Parent Exercise If I Could Bike Lifting Being A Parent Cardio

Author:Hugh Jackman

“If you had half an hour of exercise this morning, you're in the right frame of mind to sit still and focus on this paragraph, and your brain is far more equipped to remember it.”

Ifs Mind Stills Remember Hours Brain Half Morning Focus Exercise Paragraph Frame Of Mind

Author:John Ratey

“For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.”

Justice Compassion Exercise Committed Prophetic Courage To Love

Author:Cornel West

“We have a duty to our country to participate in the political process. See, if you believe in freedom, you have a duty to exercise your right to vote to begin with. I'm [here] to encourage people to do their duty, to go to the polls. I want all people, no matter what their political party is or whether they even like a political party, to exercise their obligation to vote.”

People Ifs Want Believe Country Matter Political Process Party Duty Exercise Vote No Matter What Obligation Our Country Political Parties Polls If You Believe Right To Vote

Author:George W. Bush

“Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.”

Writing Remember Imagination Exercise My Imagination Daydreaming

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc.”

States Would Be Law Exercise Training Institutions Presses Etc Regulation Banking Reserved Proceeding Uniformity Militia Quarantine

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.”

Exercise Planning Boards Socialist Fractions

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.”

Ifs Firsts Would Be Lasts Night Exercise Critics Funeral Last Night Flair

Author:Orson Welles

“We are in a maze which we built, and then we fell into, now can't get out. To make the game into something real, something more than merely an intellectual exercise, we elected to lose our exceptional faculties, to reduce us an entire level. This unfortunately, includes a loss of memory.”

Real Games Loses Memories Loss Levels Exercise Intellectual Built Faculty Exceptional Mazes Something Real

Author:Philip K. Dick

“The term congressional hearing is an oxymoron. No congressional hearing is ever called to gather information. Rather, it is an exercise designed strictly for posturing, by people who have already made up their minds, looking for ammunition to support their positions.”

People Mind Made Term Support Information Position Exercise Hearing Ammunition Oxymoron

Author:Jack McDevitt

“I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity and substance, . . . conditions which alert the total sensibility - cast it almost in stress - extend insight and response, the basic responsive range of empathetic-kinesthetic vitality.”

Source: Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects

“There are days where I've lost weight and I feel bigger or fatter or uglier and I want to just hibernate. I'll find every excuse not to exercise. I hate it.”

Want Feels Hate Lost Exercise Weight Bigger I Hate Excuse

Author:Carnie Wilson

“Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the mental realm, but also as experiences in the material realm.”

Dream Vision Materials Exercise Realms Concentration Willpower Visualization

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“I come from a family that loves to eat, not exercise. Being fat made even walking hard.”

Made Hard Walking Exercise Fats Being Fat

Author:Joe Bastianich

“A turn or two I'll walk To still my beating mind.”

Mind Stills Two Turns Passion Walks Exercise Anger

Book:The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard

Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard

“I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.”

Knows Lost Habit Exercise Late Melancholy Customs Mirth Hamlet 2 Important Hamlet

Book:Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists.”

Order Exercise Conscious Spells Ads Consumption Pills Comical Hypnotic Subliminal Sociologists

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.”

Humans Facts Human Beings Talent Exercise Integrity Degrees Glory Artistic Multiple Proficiency

Author:Theodore Bikel

“I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go on the day, the time, to the doctor I choose and get out fast.”

Way I Can My Own Goes On Citizens Exercise Doctors

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“I think variety is the spice of sticking with an exercise routine, whether it's getting a dance tape one day, or getting a tape with those stretchy things to work with resistance on a different day.”

Thinking Different Exercise One Day Resistance Variety Routine Tape Spices Different Day

Author:Christie Brinkley

“I like to eat. I'm always on the edge of how much can I eat without looking too - you know. If I eat something salty, it makes me want something sweet. I eat something sweet, then I want salty. And exercise is not my thing, though I do it.”

Ifs Knows Want Sweet Exercise Edges Want Something Salty Something Sweet

Author:Salma Hayek

“I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.”

Thinking Sometimes Turns Imagine Figures Exercise Impact Profound Imaginative

Author:Vinton Cerf

“I've always been a closet jock. With exercising, the more you do it, the more you get into it. And the more you see results, the more you're pushing for the next level.”

Next Levels Results Exercise Pushing Closets Next Level Jocks

Author:Michelle Obama

“When I was younger, I could eat whatever I wanted, as long as I exercised; or if I didn't exercise and just watched what I ate, I'd maintain. Now I have to do both.”

Ifs Long Wanted Exercise

Author:Michelle Obama

“I was very skeptical when he began, and there have been moments where I think he's shown absolute leadership, and I think the jury is out, still out. I haven't made any final decisions on him, but I've been surprised at times. I agree with him about one thing absolutely - George W. Bush said recently that he believed in prayer and exercise. So do I.”

Thinking Has Beens Made Said Stills Moments Prayer Decision One Thing Havens Exercise Absolutes Agree Finals Skeptical Jury

Author:Joe Eszterhas

“I like things to be really, really funny, or really, really dramatic. Those books are certainly the ones that grab me. I like the exercise of reading through a paragraph, and it's just torture. I try not to have my eyes dart to the right. That's the stuff that I love.”

Trying Book Eye Reading Stuff Exercise Dramatic Torture Paragraph

Author:Angie Harmon

“Coming from the modeling industry I have to exercise a lot, but I do enjoy it... I don't want to put my swimsuit on if I'm not fit.”

Ifs Want Enjoy Industry Fit Exercise Modeling Swimsuits Modeling Industry

Author:Brooke Burke

“I don't care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.”

Care Winning Sex Sports Exercise Don't Care I Don't Care Dull Embarrassing You Can Win

Author:Norm MacDonald

“Harry [Styles] is like a younger brother. We do exercises together then he asks me to prepare a sandwich for the effort.”

Together Asks Effort Style Brother Exercise Ask Me Sandwiches Younger Brother

Author:Liam Payne

“Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”

Humans Exercise Argument Slavery Slave Oppression Illegal Tyrants Creeds Exertion Human Freedom Infringement

Author:William Pitt

“Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.”

Matter Ability Nice Exercise Judgment Backgrounds Corporations Residual

Author:Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

“When you are a screwed up person, you have a responsibility to keep your normal friends from getting walked on. 'Cos, how bad could you screw that up ? And don't say, Well, you could cause someone six months of physical therapy. 'Cos, hey, lots of times, those exercise take places in pools and nylon tents with little plastic balls. Fun places like that. And, she gets to park up really close for a while. Ha ha, oh, I'm the bad guy.”

Wells Littles Persons Guy Fun Causes Responsibility Months Exercise Normal Six Balls Hey Therapy Parks Pool Plastic Screws Six Months Bad Guys Tents Screwed Up Physical Therapy Nylon

Author:Christopher Titus

“Science, Government, Education, Art, the cultural monolith may be said to exist primarily to exercise a paternal influence, decorously if possible, aggressively if necessary, to enforce certain accepted images upon individuals.”

Ifs May Art Said Government Certain Individual Influence Exercise Accepted Government Education

Author:Eleanor Antin

“Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.”

Wells Mean Age Brain Known Exercise Shapes Accepted Backgrounds Well Known Optimal Physical Exercise

Author:Naveen Jain

“Everyone needs to find something they love to do - it's not about what they have to do. You need to make it fun! So if shopping is your love and you hate exercise, walk to the shops!”

Ifs Needs Hate Fun Walks Exercise Shops Shopping

Author:Irina Shayk