Strain Quotes

303 quotes by 270 authors

As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries,… — Cleveland Abbe
I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics. — Tony Abbott
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at… — Robert Browning
At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we… — David Cameron
When I pick up one of my children and cuddle them, all the strain and stress of life temporarily disappears. There is nothing more wonderful… — Nicola Horlick
Amnesty will not help balance our budget ... In fact, a large-scale amnesty is likely to add trillions of dollars to the debt over time,… — Jeff Sessions
If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain… — Alexander Whyte
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life. — Ernest Renan
We strain hardest for things which are almost, but now quite within reach. — Frederick William Faber
If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the… — Henry Van Dyke
A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains,… — Mark Twain
When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool… — Kathleen Winsor
Going home means getting comfortable being who you are and who your soul really wants to be. There is no strain with that. The strain… — Melody Beattie
When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and… — Dag Hammarskjold
Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking. — Mahatma Gandhi
The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward. All wheeled vehicles sink up to their… — Gunther Blumentritt
The whole system is under tremendous strain. Although the increasing pace of change is essential for developing new solutions, it is also pushing society to… — Franz Josef Radermacher
Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on… — Bernardino Ramazzini

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