#strain

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#feel #i #took #want

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#him #increased #makes #man #moral

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

No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#administration #check #civilization #control #could

We are what we are, Nial, neither as good or as evil as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#emotions #feelings #free #irial #niall

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#before #commitments #core #culture #essential

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

For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint. ↗

— Marie de France

#ask #before #beloved #bond #constraint

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety. ↗

— David Ginola

#again #am #been #calf #climbing