Strained Quotes
64 quotes by 60 authors
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
— Francis Bacon
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The quality of mercy is not strained
— William Shakespeare
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One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential…
— Arthur Schuster
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To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,…
— William James
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There's two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it's been strained through some kind…
— Merle Haggard
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You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained…
— Allen Ginsberg
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I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit…
— Gary Cole
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The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand…
— Henry James
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The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some displace the ankles…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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I remember, when I have preached at different times in the country, and sometimes here, that my whole soul has agonized over men, every nerve…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the exposed-brick wall. As…
— Maureen Dowd
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There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of…
— Brander Matthews
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Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain…
— Marcia Angell
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Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
— Simon Van Booy
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A trustworthy leader goes the extra mile to remedy strained relationships, even when it doesn't appear to be required.
— John C. Maxwell
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I loved the sea. I loved steamers and sailboats and surf and sailors. And I yearned and strained to the sea, always the sea, for…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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God's love has a width, length, height, and depth, but we will never reach the end of it. Our capacity to experience God's love will…
— Max Lucado
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One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal labor government has…
— Dan Barker
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I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.
— Gwendoline Christie
Who Wrote These Strained Quotes
60 authors contributed a total of 64 Strained Quotes, led by these top contributors: