Strained Quotes

64 quotes by 60 authors

You know, I donâ€™t get why Fred and George only got three O.W.L.s each,â€ said Harry, watching as Fred, George, and Lee collected gold from… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him… — David Nicholls
Dora appeared, placing Alex's coffee in front of him."Your girlfriend is a wonder, honey,"she siad to him, squeezing willows shoulder. Willow's smile turned strained at… — L.A. Weatherly
He strained to say something else. I leaned toward him. He focused on me. â€œRape,â€ he promised. â€œMany, many times. Until you bleed . .… — Ilona Andrews
He grinned, though his face was strained. â€œThatâ€™s it, love. Use me to make yerself feel good. — Elizabeth Hoyt
What have you done?' he said, his voice hollow and strained. He stepped back and put his fists to his temples. 'What have you done!'… — Christopher Paolini
Yes, just like those flowers. There's something strained, but there's beauty in that. Something like that — Koushun Takami
Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. Itâ€™s natural in times of great… — Kate Morton
He laughed. A strained, ha, ha, ha, I may die of this laugh. — Tessa Dare
You're a rotten driver,' I protested. 'Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn't to drive at all.' 'I am careful.' 'No, you're… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced. — Michel de Montaigne
In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving… — Bill Dedman
I did recording sessions as a musician as well as a background vocalist and enjoyed every minute of it. I remember singing harmony with Waylon… — Ray Stevens
They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as… — Joseph Howe
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners… — Robert Rainy
Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new kind of enemy… — Bill Keller
Its hard to forget the past especially if it is strained to enter into our minds. — Innah Delos Angeles
We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from… — Abraham Lincoln
The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth… — William Shakespeare

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