Strain Quotes

303 Strain quotes by 267 unique authors

I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell… — Henry David Thoreau
Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear. — Henry David Thoreau
Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely… — Henry David Thoreau
I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets: — Sara Gruen
Strain every nerve to gain your point. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an… — Ambrose Bierce
There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The forces that seek… — Ziad K. Abdelnour
All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate. — Peter De Vries
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but… — Henry Adams
For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really… — Robert Fulghum
Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as… — Walter Lippmann
Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no… — William Booth
The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that… — B.K.S. Iyengar
There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can… — Bruce Catton
A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed. — Eugene V. Debs
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. — Florence King
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the… — Pindar
I closed my eyes. The only things I knew about why Empty Ones worked the way we did was that we had room for extra… — Kiersten White
You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams,… — Jack Kerouac
We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their… — Tom Tancredo
There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother… — Carol Vorderman
I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my… — Mike White
All the billions of people who now inhabit our planet are putting a terrific strain on its aura, making it difficult, even for evolved people… — Frederick Lenz
Having a profile means you have to be cautious of who you let into your world, as you don't know if they're being genuine or… — Jesse Metcalfe
There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there. — Donald Barthelme

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