(163 quotes found)
“The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.”
William Shakespeare
“Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.”
Bible
“Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?”
George Bernard Shaw
“Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.”
Edwin Way Teale
“[Speak softly]Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.”
Leonard Nimoy
“To the sound itself the conductor adds the italics and punctuation of gesture, of strained arms, of startling tautness of the shoulders, of brisk nod, of hands flung apart in some wild appeal to the universe.”
Christopher Andreae
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.”
Abraham Lincoln
“But the thing uttered by the speaker I strain towards is still not quite the story of what is going on; it is more reflexive than that, because as a poet I am in fact straining towards a strain, seeking repose in the stability conferred by a musically satisfying order of sounds.”
Seamus Heaney
“When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.”
Dag Hammarskjold
