#strain

It wasn't like a Maths test where I have to strain to get it right. I feel very close to Luna so acting her was just natural. And if I had got too nervous I'd have done terribly. ↗

— Evanna Lynch

#close #done #feel #get #got

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#friendship #good #good advice #long #much

Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#certain #danger #destruction #doubly #engine

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

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#find #i #less #lust #many

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#comfort #common #common enemy #cordial #deny

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#been #end #every #faith #gold

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

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them. ↗

— Harry Browne

#cause #government #ideas #irresponsible #libertarian

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used. ↗

— Stanley Smith Stevens

#measure #placed #statistics #type #used