With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano.… — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
The strain on Roger (Maris) was unbelievable. After I dropped out the reporters only had one guy to go to. They surrounded… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics. — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
