Strain Quotes · Page 2

“Nothing can unman you like an un-man.”

— Chuck Hogan

Sometimes, if I really strain my brain, I can do multiplication.

— Michael Grant

Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.

— Swami Vivekananda

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

— Abraham Lincoln

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.

— Alexander Pope

Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

— T. S. Eliot

I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.

— Mason Cooley

It put a strain on our relationship and our family, ... We thought, 'what can we do?

— Nelly

Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.

— Homaro Cantu

When you're younger, the mental strain of being a successful actor, jumping from role to role, and trying to have some kind…

— Kathy Baker

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

— H. L. Mencken

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

— Raymond Williams

When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.

— Howard Rheingold

Strong growth means increased use of energy at a pace that can strain the capacity to supply what is needed at a…

— George P. Shultz

It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.

— Henry James

We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears…

— Nicholas Wolterstorff

Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers -…

— Susan Collins

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

It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions…

— Robert McCracken

It wasn't like a Maths test where I have to strain to get it right. I feel very close to Luna so…

— Evanna Lynch

Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare…

— Myla Goldberg

Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys…

— Robert Browning

I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our…

— Shana Alexander

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

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

They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental…

— Jeremy Renner

The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his…

— Robert Briffault

The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and…

— Anthony Giddens

The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice,…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty…

— Helen Keller

To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has…

— Thucydides

English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite…

— Henry David Thoreau

“If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.”

— Anna Sewell

I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.

— George Herbert

There's nothing that can put more strain on a relationship than running for office.

— Katie Hill

“Partake not in the drama your trauma causes.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

— Og Mandino

In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.

— Alexander Pope