#strain

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint. ↗

— Rodney King

#brutality #child #force #healing #i

Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#childhood #children #family #i #marriage

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#failing #own #restrain #violence #youth

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#law #may #prohibit #restrain #shame

Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#attempt #bear #cannot #every #god

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#contrary #descended #direction #french #french language

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#constraints #execution #frees #imposes #more

We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#allegiance #america #american #civilization #country

Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#god #like #nobody #puts #she

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#celibacy #christian #christian life #enjoyments #fasting