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The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure. -- Gerard Debreu
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. -- Charles de Montesquieu
The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect. -- Henry Knox
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. -- Michael Faraday
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. -- Charles Inglis
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. -- Benjamin F. Wade
A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated. -- Junot Diaz
Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me. -- Lena Horne
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. -- Charles Babbage
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 exerted by the way in which it is earned. -- Alfred Marshall
You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with. -- Markus Wolf
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 die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation. -- Angelina Grimke
My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values. -- Eric Kandel
When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured. -- Ellen Key
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development. -- Rita Levi-Montalcini
Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet. -- John Updike
As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear. -- Eliot Spitzer
The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated. -- Mark Van Doren
In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded. -- George S. Clason
Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self. -- Swami Vivekananda
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. -- Charles de Montesquieu
Luther exerted a strong influence on Denmark. Suddenly Danish theologians were preaching in Danish and translating the Bible into Danish. -- Margrethe II of Denmark
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
The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly. -- Thomas Jefferson
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Faust seems to have exerted a big influence on Star Wars. You know, the "give up your soul for immortality" or something. -- Cass Sunstein
Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward. -- Isaac Newton
It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal. -- Laurel Lea
Miracles are everywhere to be found when the priesthood is understood, its power is honored and used properly, and faith is exerted. -- Thomas S. Monson
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
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless. -- Herophilos
Since weight training involves repetitions, a great deal of energy must be exerted. Therefore, weight training should be practiced only every other day. -- Bruce Lee
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
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
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
Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison. -- Samuel Johnson
Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research. -- I. Bernard Cohen
She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she'd exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions. -- James Dashner
Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on. -- Jane Austen
The scientist states that pressure is exerted outwards in all directions equally, whereas natural pressure (e.g. air pressure) is exerted inwards from all directions equally. -- Viktor Schauberger
What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis? -- Dennis Miller
There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way. -- Alice Mattison
I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom. -- Gao Xingjian
Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature? -- Honore de Balzac
'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated. -- Junot Diaz
The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I think that the question of how power can be exerted from the lower reaches has never been more important. It will ultimately determine whether another world is indeed possible. -- Frances Fox Piven
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 the use we make of it. -- Henry David Thoreau
Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted. -- Criss Jami
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 endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty. -- Samuel Johnson
I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted. -- Malcolm Muggeridge

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