Quotes About Activity

The things that stop you having sex with age are exactly the same as those that stop you riding a bicycle.

To acknowledge the need of a new world-view would undermine the whole of their activity, and not many thinkers were willing to pay that price. Particularly not in a society where social exclusion meant rapid transportation to the proudest invention of the humanist sciences: the mental hospital.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

Whatever may be my activity in a given moment (whether I am composing, or whether I am making love . . .), I feel pleasure if there is an obstacle placed in my path but one not greater than my ability to overcome. If circumstances paralyze my energy, I suffer. From this point of view, pleasure and pain accompany every moment of our life, even if we try to disregard them.

What is both surprising and depressing is the sheer prayerlessness that characterizes so much of the Western church. It is surprising, because it is out of step with the Bible that portrays what Christian living should be; it is depressing, because it frequently coexists with abounding Christian activity that somehow seems hollow, frivolous, and superficial.10

Do you have to skulk about like that?" "No, I don't suppose I have to skulk about.... I simply enjoy doing so." "Well, it's a very vulgar habit.

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

Poker is generally reckoned to be America's second most popular after-dark activity. Sex is good, they say, but poker lasts longer

We all pay federal taxes that we send to Washington and it is not unusual that as Americans we would expect some federal investment in the cities and metro areas because we're the ones that are generating the economic activity.

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

I bought a Fitbit, actually, and I just thought it was going to be an awesome way to track how I live and move and burn calories, but with gymnastics, it was a total waste of money because it's more based off how you walk and not how you flip.

I really detest brunch. I think it's a waste of a good day. Detest is a little too severe, but I would say I'm not a brunch person.

The last place you'll find me is the gym. It seems to me to be a waste of time - I could spend that time doing so many other things.

When I get ready to go out, it's half hour and we're out of the door. I don't want to waste time getting ready: I want to go and have fun.

Hours wasted in traffic represent not only lost wages but enormous amounts of economic activity that might have happened. Congestion indirectly increases consumer prices, makes travel times unreliable for commuters and truckers, and precludes many people from accessing jobs in urban hubs.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

If I am not enjoying my exercise regime, I am not enjoying my life, which means I am wasting it!

I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my eldest daughter, Amy, nicknamed me 'the Tasmanian Devil' when she was in her teens.

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.

To look and feel my best, I watch my calories and exercise.

On an off-day I'd rather not watch SportsCenter or basketball. I'd rather go longboard, jet ski, do something extreme-sport-wise, watch racin'.

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.