Strain Quotes

303 Strain quotes by 267 unique authors

It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be… — Robert McCracken
Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano. There are a… — Wes Montgomery
Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love... But I didn't… — Pablo Neruda
Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to… — Eugen Herrigel
O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not… — Robert Bridges
It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he… — Conrad Veidt
Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes… — Elisabeth Elliot
Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and… — Susan Collins
Sometimes we have to put our foot down, ... but before we deliberately make children unhappy in order to get them to get into the… — Alfie Kohn
Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in… — Oswald Chambers
Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You… — N.D. Wilson
It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is… — Isak Dinesen
Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their towns. And really,… — Ilya Ilf
The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were… — Winston Churchill
I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend… — David Ginola
Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others bring trinkets to… — Michel de Montaigne
Other anatomical changes associated with long-duration space flight are definitely negative: the immune system weakens, the heart shrinks because it doesn't have to strain against… — Chris Hadfield
The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear. — Horace
Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper. — Leonard Nimoy
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and pens. He is… — Sue Monk Kidd
There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives — Dennis Prager
There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all been nobly done;… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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