Strain Quotes

303 Strain quotes by 267 unique authors

The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending… — Janet Frame
Whatcha doin', Freak Girl?" --------------------------- "What does it look like, brainiac?" I shot back, even surprising myself with the force of my jab. "I'll give… — Mari Mancusi
We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put… — Aristotle
There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open. Two points are… — Kate Morton
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have-… — Virginia Woolf
You are a light that will always guide me, a whisper I'll always strain to hear. — Lora Leigh
There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever… — Malcolm Muggeridge
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of… — Thomas Merton
Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the… — John Milton
And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
... He didn't know how to say good-bye. His throat ached from the strain of holding back his emotions. “I don't want to leave you,”… — Lisa Kleypas
...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful. — Edgar Allan Poe
Interacting with other people does not come naturally to me; it is a strain and requires effort, and since it does not come naturally I… — Peter Cameron
My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding… — Isaac Asimov
Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard… — Joseph Brodsky
But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain — Alice Walker
A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak. — Scott Westerfeld
You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might… — Ken Kesey
And he's pressing into her and she into him, bodies shivering, like they are two scared, lost children, starving, starving to be touched, to be… — Lisa McMann
This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They… — John Green
Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Since we’re playing that game… I tilted my face up to his and gave him a lovesick gaze. “Do you have to sneeze?” he asked.… — Ilona Andrews
Sometimes, if I really strain my brain, I can do multiplication. — Michael Grant
Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping. — Stephen Colbert

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