Strains Quotes
76 Strains quotes by 71 unique authors
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains.
— Salman Rushdie
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Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be…
— Charles Spurgeon
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People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of…
— Ilka Chase
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The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine…
— Origen
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He strains his conversation through a cigar.
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
— Bertolt Brecht
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Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.
— Patricia Arquette
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Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and crosses, strains and…
— Joel Beeke
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Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or…
— Joe Scarborough
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My life certainly hasn't been ordinary: different is the word. It hasn't always been stable - except in the important things which are love and…
— River Phoenix
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There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of…
— Justus von Liebig
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The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and…
— Unknown Author
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Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both French and British strains. For…
— Harry S. Truman
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No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
— Samuel Johnson
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Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains.
— Unknown Author
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He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it looks like black…
— Peter Høeg
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At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof of conscious intelligenceHe…
— Maria Montessori
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We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but…
— Francis Galton
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Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most…
— Germaine Greer
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And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few.
— William Wordsworth
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I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.
— John Milton
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It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry…
— John Ruskin
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The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s the way a…
— Anna Kamienska
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Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in…
— Oswald Chambers
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