#gym

Chess is intellectual gymnastics. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#gymnastics #intellectual

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty. ↗

— John Strachan

#build #churches #clergymen #difficulty #done

On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit. ↗

— Peter Straub

#appointment #back #bedtime #bit #days

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer. ↗

— William Hull

#alone #approach #asked #attend #bible

My school friends are really understanding and still want to hang out with me. Ever since I was in sixth grade, I was at the gym every day to work out while my friends were getting their nails done or going to the mall. I used to feel left out, but I don't anymore. ↗

— Aly Raisman

#day #done #ever #every #every day

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#everything #gymnastics #movements #precision #timing

Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favorite things to do. ↗

— Kate Moss

#favorite things #going #gym #list #things

Gymnastics is so complex. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#gymnastics

With strange detachment, Naomi’s mind noticed nothing but the beauty of the jump. Air sliced along her body as it streamed straight as an arrow in its path of utmost precision. The world fell away behind her. For an immeasurable moment, Naomi wasn’t a terrestrial being at all. She was wildly liberated like a bird, soaring through the sky with the chaotic freedom of a wild animal. ↗

— Jennifer Perry

#mystery-suspense #suspense-action #beauty

As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics __ cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe. ↗

— John Rachel

#cerebral #computers #gymnastics #intelligence #orangutan