Strain Quotes · Page 10

The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability.

— Leonard Orr

Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in…

— Samuel Johnson

A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There are choirs singing in your head. If you listen, you will hear the music. It is the song of angels. Pay…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I like to always remind my dancers about ways to avoid injury. One of the basic ways to avoid injury is to…

— Laurieann Gibson

Having a profile means you have to be cautious of who you let into your world, as you don't know if they're…

— Jesse Metcalfe

The percentage of mentally disturbed people in the United States is very high. From the time the American gets up in the…

— Fidel Castro

Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of…

— John Lubbock

He strains his conversation through a cigar.

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this…

— Leonid Shamkovich

I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was…

— Quentin S. Crisp

England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss…

— Colin MacInnes

For decades I'd flit from drawing table to typewriter to guitar with no sense of strain or contradiction. They all exercised the…

— Peter Blegvad

Fashion shoots put an enormous strain on my skin and hair. So when I'm away from the cameras, I don't wear make-up,…

— Sasha Pivovarova

Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they…

— Plato

I expect that essential oils may some day prove a vital weapon in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resi stant bacteria.

— Andrew Weil

A few years ago we colonised this place with some of our finest felons, thieves, muggers, alcoholics and prostitutes, a strain of…

— Ian Wooldridge

I have always preferred to liken the championship to a marathon. You have to know how to start the race, how to…

— Bob Paisley

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

— Jack Vance

The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain…

— Ellsworth Huntington

Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.

— Leonard Nimoy

Going to Morocco was massive; that's where I really found music which had the African syncopation and swing mixed with Arabic strains,…

— Justin Adams

The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice…

— William Shakespeare