In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument… — Henry David Thoreau 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
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm always striving to lose weight. And it's not a matter of wanting to be a size 3 again - I brought… — Liz Torres Copy Share Image
I started with superhero stuff - 'X-Men' and 'Spider-Man' and 'Batman' and 'Hellboy' - but I wasn't familiar with 'The Strain' until… — Corey Stoll 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
We strain hardest for things which are almost but not quite within our reach. — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the… — John Updike 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
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you… — Andrew Solomon 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
My most frequent admonition to athletes and coaches is: train, do not strain. — Arthur Lydiard Copy Share Image
Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Syria is on the back end of basically a decade-long drought. Over the last decade, farmers and herders have been ravaged in… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Tears were a blessing; they were a relief; they did wash the ache from the heart, ease brain strain, and encourage the… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
“In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct,… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no… — Arthur Lydiard 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
The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with… — George Bernard Shaw 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
