#strain

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

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love #relationships #restraint #rules #love

Nothing can unman you like an un-man. ↗

— Chuck Hogan

#strain #unman #humor

When you give yourself to me, completely, I will bite you. Until then, my love, I will only nibble on you.”~Cole ↗

— Tina Carreiro

#hunger #love #paranormal #restraint #romance

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#constraint #horror #nature #rhythmic

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. ↗

— George Eliot

#different #great #great strain #jokes #strain

There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#actor #agency #because #big #bring

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

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#common #doing #duties #effective #great