Strain Quotes

303 Strain quotes by 267 unique authors

Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. — John Milton
Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that his monks strain… — Philip Kapleau
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain… — Ezra Pound
If we're going to talk about economic fairness, or about fairness, one of the most pressing economic issues facing families, seniors, and job creators in… — Roy Blunt
When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can. — Thomas Harris
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

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