It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird! — Jenny Lind Copy Share Image
“continuing to think about job demands during breaks may result in strain.” — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if I really strain my brain, I can even do multiplication. — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
You never have a comedian who hasn't got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every great clown has… — Margaret Rutherford Copy Share Image
All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp. — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The bike struggled showing signs it was feeling the strain especially in the bodywork which we constantly had to fix with Alberto's… — Ernesto Guevara Copy Share Image
The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability. — Leonard Orr Copy Share Image
Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the… — Rosamond Marshall Copy Share Image
My films often have a very strong strain of irony, or even sarcasm, which is definitely related to homosexual camp. But it… — Bruce LaBruce Copy Share Image
One of the basic ways to avoid injury is to always make sure to stretch and warm up your body. This will… — Laurieann Gibson Copy Share Image
I suppose the biggest strain was that Hoodwink is a high-octane character and he's up there like all the time. Once he's… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
As long as the "woman's work" that some men do is socially devalued, as long as it is defined as woman's work,… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Most Americans instinctively recoil from the claim that there is an antireligious bias running through the underlying assumptions with which their society… — Stephen V Monsma Copy Share Image
Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer; Rarer is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret… — Richard Realf Copy Share Image
For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The wind has a language, I would I could learn! Sometimes 'tis soothing, and sometimes 'tis stern, Sometimes it comes like a… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
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