Exerted Quotes

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 the frequency with which it is exerted.

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.

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 to travel that road.

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.