#exertion

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. They did it four times. 'Faster,' said Ang [Lee]. They do it twice more. 'Don't pant so much,' said Ang. Greg [Wise (playing Willoughby)], to his great credit, didn't scream. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#love-scenes #movies #physical-exertion #love

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers. ↗

— Theodore White

#become #beginning #corps #correspondents #days

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#attraction #cannot #circumstance #coupled #england

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. ↗

— Robert Burns

#character #complaint #cowardly #despised #enduring

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power. ↗

— Friedrich List

#alone #bad #better #everything #exertions

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#exertion #physical #suffering #war

In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#bill #bright #co-operation #conditions #enterprise

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#because #consumption #creative #ever #exertion

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#exertions #habitual #his #man #measured

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