Strain Quotes

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.

A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to the user. A great designer can go beyond this and create a design that demonstrates that some of those constraints weren’t really there to begin with.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It’s up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose it, watch out.

Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.

Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.

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

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

To accomplish nothing and die of the strain

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

Restraint never ruins one's health.

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.