Exerted Quotes

64 Exerted quotes by 62 unique authors

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on… — Charles Babbage
I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart… — Immanuel Kant
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless. — Herophilos
The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe… — Thomas Jefferson
When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles. — Samuel Johnson
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty… — Benjamin F. Wade
Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all. — Yanni
We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our… — Samuel Johnson
The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a… — Walter Russell
Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the… — Charles Lyell
The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a… — Svante Arrhenius
First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling… — Henry David Thoreau
Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Upon the whole I doubt whether the Benefits of opposition to the Constitution opposition to the Constitution will not ultimately be productive of more good… — George Washington
There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning under a boiler,… — Justus von Liebig
The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated. — Mark Van Doren
You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial… — Pierre Bourdieu
At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would… — Angelina Grimke
It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international… — Margaret Thatcher
Mankind will someday realize that we are actually in contact with the dead and with the other world, whatever it is; right now we could… — Jack Kerouac
It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin. — Dmitri Volkogonov
And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that… — Alfred Marshall
In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that "the war on… — Theodore Dalrymple
The difference between good and bad cookery can scarcely be more strikingly shown than in the manner in which sauces are prepared and served. If… — Eliza Acton

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