Strain Quotes

303 quotes by 267 authors

Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain on the muscles is such… — Bernardino Ramazzini
That's put a strain on his left-hand knee. — John Scales
Home-making today should have a background of scientific training because only in this way can real efficiency be achieved. The average girl wants to be… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals — Spencer W. Kimball
Goals should always be made to a point that will make us reach and strain. — Spencer W. Kimball
It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite… — Unknown Author
We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after the heavens; and… — John O'Donohue
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a… — C.S. Lewis
This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for… — Shana Alexander
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls. — Bertolt Brecht
Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with. — Patricia Arquette
Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a… — Anton Yelchin
One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that… — Bruce Lee
There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles… — Cuba Gooding, Jr.
A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when what is going… — Eric S. Raymond
I grew up having to piss in a bucket â€™cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things that… — Ozzy Osbourne
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others.… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every… — Nikolai Gogol
Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive,… — Robert Browning
The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little… — James Lane Allen

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