#exert

That was one other time when my whole body reacted to the fear and went out of my own control. My nerves came apart completely, and I started vomiting and vomiting. I couldn't stop. It had been such a narrow escape. I kept telling myself that I could take all of the pressure; but there were those times that my body seemed almost to shut itself down, to scream that what was happening was just too much. ↗

— Diet Eman

#breakdown #exertion #limits #diet

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. ↗

— Ben Stein

#exertions #happens #itself #make #nothing

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. ↗

— John Ruskin

#expression #imperfection #paralysis #vitality #expression

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#body #brings #circumstances #confesses #does

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#hidden #language #like #moon #power

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#behavior #exert #human #human behavior #influences

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure. ↗

— William Vickrey

#effect #enter #exert #high #inflationary

We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#believe #community #end #exerting #india

The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#china #containing #exert #exerting #important

The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#acknowledged #adequate #against #british #colonies