Strain Quotes
303 quotes by 267 authors
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Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number…
— Hassanal Bolkiah
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I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor,…
— Harry Houdini
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You're a dancer; don't strain, don't force it. Be one with the hurdle, let it happen, relax while running fast.
— Renaldo Nehemiah
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The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical…
— Simone Weil
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When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.
— Charles Lamb
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If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities…
— A. Edward Newton
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When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are activated.
— K. Anders Ericsson
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No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully…
— Chester A. Arthur
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Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were…
— Ken Follett
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When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons,…
— Andrew Solomon
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We do believe in setting goals. We live by goals. In athletics we always have a goal. When we go to school, we have the…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their…
— Colin MacInnes
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I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions.…
— Arthur Lydiard
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On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda…
— Edward Teller
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And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell…
— John Milton
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...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to…
— Edward Weston
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There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want…
— Gore Vidal
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We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists…
— Ivan Chtcheglov
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