Quotes by Exercise As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles. Edgar Allan Poe strongexercisemen Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise. Edmund Vance Cooke disciplinegoalexercise But maybe prayer is a road to rise, A mountain path leading toward the skies To assist the spirit who truly tries. But it isn't a shibboleth, creed, nor code, It isn't a pack-horse to carry your load, It isn't a wagon, it's only a road. And perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal, but the exercise! Edmund Vance Cooke horseprayerexercise The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power. Edmund Burke agitationnamesexercise I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but I am quite used to that and they won't keep me from giving you a few suggestions, even if it is merely an exercise in futility whose only effect is to make you feel guilty. Edsger Dijkstra exercisegivinglong In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday. Edward Albert stressexercisesleep And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow. Edith Wharton auntmotherexercise In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power. Edward Bernays freedomexerciselife Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation. Edward Abbey doeexercisemean I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction. Edith Wharton errandsdestructionexercise [S]leep, and enough of it, is the prime necessity. Enough exercise, and good food and enough, are other necessities. But sleep—good sleep, and enough of it—this is a necessity without which you cannot have the exercise of use, nor the food. Edward Everett Hale useexercisesleep Can it be possible that all human sympathies can thrive, and all human powers be exercised, and all human joys increase, if we live with all our might with the thirty or forty people next to us, telegraphing kindly to all other people, to be sure? Can it be possible that our passion for large cities, and large parties, and large theatres, and large churches, develops no faith nor hope nor love which would not find aliment and exercise in a little "world of our own"? Edward Everett Hale passionpartyexercise History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environment, but himself; and this has added, so to speak, a new dimension to reason and a new dimension to history. Edward Hallett Carr struggleexercisemen The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money. Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury cheaterplayexercise The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Edward Gibbon choicesexercisewriting Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude. Edward Gibbon governmentexercisehistory Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton readingexercisebook To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days Edward Hoagland slave-ownersdogexercise Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind. Edmund Burke governmentmindexercise Today, because photography exercises such a profound influence upon the study of art, we tend to disregard the way in which prints continue to function as information. Edward Lucie-Smith photographyexerciseart«3233343536373839404142»
