Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Ellen Swallow Richards

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

Edward Dahlberg

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

Edward Dahlberg

Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.

Hermann Hesse

Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Henrik Ibsen

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

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.

Steve Martin

I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.

Tim Ferriss

Exercise is overrated.

S. Jay Olshansky

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and its free to everyone.

Sonia Sotomayor

I accept the proposition that... to judge is an exercise of power and because ... there is no objective stance but only a series of perspectives -- no neutrality, no escape from choice in judging, I further accept that our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions.

Tim Burton

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

Thomas Jefferson

No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.

Thomas Jefferson

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

Thomas Jefferson

The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration with me in the exercise of official duties. Certainly there is not a word in the Constitution which has given that power to them more than to the Executive or Legislative branches.