#strain

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#aspect #being #beings #bound #chain

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists. ↗

— John McCarthy

#better #both #face #honesty #humanity

The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#because #constraints #cut #going #ideas

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#always #around #constraints #except #extreme

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#escapes #ever #except #expense #idea

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one. ↗

— Michael Rosenbaum

#dressed #even #i #man #men

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart. ↗

— Raymond Williams

#breaks #capitalism #capitalists #ever #faster

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#liberty #restraints

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains. ↗

— Edward Lawrie Tatum

#better understood #coming #cultures #evolution #mutant

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. ↗

— Florence King

#metaphors #nothing #say #strain #who