It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.
A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.
You get a feeling on certain trails, when you're reacting like you and your machine are just one thing. It's the feeling of physical exertion and speed and technique all wrapped into one.
Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.
We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.
Laughter is the most healthful exertion.
Nothing happens by itself. . . it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.
As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government.
As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.
The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominantsubordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in play, to affirm that the exertion of power over powerlessness is erotic, is empowering, is to set the emotional and social stage for the continuation of that relationship, politically, socially, and economically.
It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of divine action; for in this sense, God himself has told us that God wishes things which do not happen because man does not wish them! Thus the rights of men are immense, and his greatest misfortune is to be unaware of them.
Without a twich of exertion, Redd sealed his lips with glue. "Who wants to kill him?" The Cat raised a paw. Siren and Alistare raised their hands. "Mmmmmm mmm mmm," protested Jack.
A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created by external advantages; it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the result of one's own endeavors-the fruit and reward of good principles manifested in a course of virtuous and honorable action.
