The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.
George Saintsbury

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
John Henry Newman

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.
Heidi Klum

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.
Pierre Schaeffer

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.
William Ramsay

The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.
Virginia Foxx

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
Laurence Olivier

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.
James Nathan Miller

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
William Temple

The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
Jack LaLanne

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?
Robert Dale Owen

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul Sartre

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.
Shannon Miller

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
Felix Frankfurter

The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.
Kenneth H. Cooper

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.
Ezra Stiles

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.
Donald Rumsfeld

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

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Jacques Barzun