#strain

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#against #character #characters #did #different

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#constraining #dangerous #destructive #dogmatic #innovation

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#divorce #family #indissoluble #laws #made

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

#expand #influence #international #leadership #means

Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene. ↗

— Cedric Hardwicke

#happen #love #love scene #might #must

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. ↗

— Horace

#cannot #irritation #prompted #restrain #temper

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#evolution #only #preliminary #self-restraint #sexual

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#been #fbi #free #haven #impose

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. ↗

— Stephen Spender

#beyond #go #great #poetry #somebody

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. ↗

— Paul Berg

#biology #human #human values #ideas #impact