Straining Quotes

65 quotes by 63 authors

Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a… — Karen Armstrong
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives. — Charles Dudley Warner
One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is… — Roger Rosenblatt
If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you… — Clive Anderson
What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?. — George Bernard Shaw
It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since… — John Muir
I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining… — John Keats
Basically, we've learned to delegate. We just grew tired of becoming too psychotic and straining to make the records ourselves. — Stevie Jackson
Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus… — Al Gore
I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I… — Katherine Jenkins
I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me. — Elia Kazan
Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining… — Timothy Murphy
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. — Jonathan Safran Foer
All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the… — Nikos Kazantzakis
It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed… — Zora Neale Hurston
Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us;… — Evelyn Waugh
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy… — Jack London
He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet.… — Leo Tolstoy
Itâ€™s not always easy to get over some of those bumps in the road, those disillusionments and disappointments. Itâ€™s going to take a strong will.… — Joel Osteen

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