Strain Quotes · Page 7

The problem is maddening. The thing you seek is so close, you feel you could reach out and touch it. You feel…

— Dave Sim

When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

— Charles Lamb

All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp.

— Keith Gessen

Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is…

— Hudson Taylor

There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations…

— John Carroll

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days,…

— Ken Follett

This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in…

— Albert Einstein

I think [song 'Can't Stop Workin'] it's the constant work; performing and traveling. It gets to be a bit of a strain.…

— Neil Young

Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life,…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

— Winston Churchill

Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing Will change for you soon to a livelier strain.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity.

— Leonard Ravenhill

Strain your brain more than your eye.

— Thomas Eakins

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

— Michael Grant

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

— Henry James

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you…

— Don Young

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

— H. L. Mencken

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

— Ernest Renan

Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.

— Bram Stoker

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

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

Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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 am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be…

— Jane Austen

Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it…

— John Ortberg