1,154 Quotes About Exercise

  • Author Henry Ward Beecher
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    God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

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  • Author Hilaire Belloc
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    Even if the wealth and power be well distributed throughout a community, its members will not be happy unless they are inwardly so, and obviously where the distribution is bad, where the few have a vast superfluity and the many are consumed by anxiety or want, or where a few controllers can exercise their will over the many, society has failed, even though its total wealth and power be increased.

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  • Author J. G. Ballard
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    I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.

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  • Author Jean Baudrillard
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    In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

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  • Author Jerry Bridges
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    Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.

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  • Author Jo Brand
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    I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.

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  • Author Jo Brand
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    My doctor told me I should get out of breath three times a week, so I took up smoking.

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