Zitat des Tages über Sehnen / Sinews:
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Money is the sinews of love, as of war.
The sinews of war are infinite money.
Libyans have to work together for a new Libya. They should keep in place the sinews of security.
The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.