Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Hamilton

Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.

Alexander Hamilton

It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated, and at the rapid succession of revolutions by which they were kept in a state of perpetual vibration between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy . . . great improvement . . . were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients.

Adlai E. Stevenson

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

Alexander Pope

Education forms the common mind.

Alexander Pope

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Alexander Pope

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Alexander Pope

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

Alexander Pope

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Albert Shanker

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

Billy Blanks

What I'm teaching as an exercise instructor, my goal is to be able to take all the love off myself to help someone else.

Anna Quindlen

I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults.

Chyler Leigh

I have exercise-induced asthma.

Andy Warhol

I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store.

Anne Graham Lotz

Just like you need to strengthen your core physically with exercise, you also need to strength your core spiritually.

William Shakespeare

He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter.

Tom Daschle

The president will veto it, and there are ample votes to sustain the veto. So, that was an exercise in total futility,

Dogen

IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.

Robert Fripp

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

Ben Folds

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Allen Klein

The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.

Allen Ginsberg

I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

Allan Bloom

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

Alison Pill

Secrets are great for acting. Secrets are the best thing in the world for acting, because they keep you looking like you have something in the back of your mind.

Alicia Sacramone

Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.

Ann Landers

Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.

Ann Landers

It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.