Strain Quotes

303 Strain quotes by 267 unique authors

Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain. — Paul Gillmor
I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the… — Ellie Goulding
The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long… — John Cornyn
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. — George Eliot
It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU… — Nigel Farage
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control… — Lafcadio Hearn
It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those… — Lyndon B. Johnson
I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to get to the… — Carl Lewis
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. — Abraham Lincoln
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. — Robert Staughton Lynd
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will… — Og Mandino
Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on… — Theresa May
When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress… — Joe Namath
They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your… — Jeremy Renner
For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that… — Will Self
Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies… — Amity Shlaes
Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I,… — Bram Stoker
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called… — John Updike
I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train,… — Don Van Vliet
Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed… — Hanna Rosin
Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work,… — Quentin Crisp
Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so… — Hunter S. Thompson

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