Quotes About Exercised

Peter exercised a zeal which was unregulated by knowledge

Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

KNOWLEDGE is only Power to the Extent that it is... U S E D

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

I was a federal prosecutor when we exercised powers under the Patriot Act or under the FISA court.

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

In the middle of the breakup I had an epiphany: If I got fewer than eight hours of sleep, it felt like my world was coming to an end. But on the days when I got more than eight hours of sleep (and exercised), I was able to put it all behind me. It blew my mind that my entire outlook on a relationship could be so noticeably influenced by my bedtime.

An hasty fortune maketh an enterpriser and remover ... but the exercised fortune maketh the able man.

Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.

Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? "What sinews are those?"—A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.

You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.

The King of Glory does not reward His servants according to the dignity of their office, but according to the humility and love with which they have exercised it.

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.

Helplessness. If women were hope´s oldest companions, it was due to helplessness. Certainly women often exerciced dreadful power over a single hearth, but the world between hearths belonged to men.

They are neither natural nor moral, but spiritual endowments; for both their author, nature, and object, are respected herein. Their author is the Holy Spirit; their nature is spiritual; and the objects about which they are exercised are spiritual things.

In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.