Strain Quotes · Page 12

You collapse a few times, and you put your head in your hands, and you say, "Oh my god, how am I…

— Aaron McGruder

Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that…

— Philip Kapleau

Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

— John Milton

“Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Out of the strain of the doing, into the Peace of the Done.”

— Julia Louise Woodruff

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

— Johnny Weissmuller

“I was eighteen and already tired.”

— Belinda Kelderhouse

Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

— Paul Robeson

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is…

— Alice Walker

I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.

— August Bournonville

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

— Florence King

Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.

— Ruth Gordon

I hope to continue doing TV, and I think that what I've learned on 'The Strain' will come in handy.

— Guillermo del Toro

To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind…

— Mark Helprin

The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the…

— P. J. O'Rourke

What you find I think in the mystical strain of Catholicism is that you're put in relationship with God, and you have…

— Kevin Hart

There are a lot of leg strains on the inside of the legs. There's a lot of pressure on your legs and…

— Gerad Adams

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

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation…

— Hassanal Bolkiah

It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a…

— Joseph Stalin

As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs…

— Cleveland Abbe

Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests.…

— Charlotte Mason

We do believe in setting goals. We live by goals. In athletics we always have a goal. When we go to school,…

— Spencer W. Kimball

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition,…

— Ansel Adams

My life certainly hasn't been ordinary: different is the word. It hasn't always been stable - except in the important things which…

— River Phoenix

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a…

— Bill Moyers

We're all like the little sailor. From the harbors we hear the strains of accordions and the murky soapy noises of the…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

If a society takes it upon itself to prescribe and proscribe certain streams of belief - to prohibit certain less-favored strains of…

— Mitt Romney

There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.

— Donna Tartt

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.

— Henry David Thoreau

“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.”

— Amit Kalantri

When I was a little bit younger The strain I was under could make me cry. Now I'm a little bit older,…

— Zooey Deschanel

Do all men kill the things they do not love …… The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the…

— William Shakespeare

Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming…

— James D. Watson

I really liked it [The Andromeda Strain], and I don't know that it ever had the effect they were hoping for. I…

— Eric McCormack

Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of…

— Hartley Coleridge

To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and…

— Virginia Woolf