Strain Quotes
Strain Quote of the day
Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!
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 when the public finances are under great strain.
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 aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697
Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals
Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.
There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.
Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.
Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.
What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
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 display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are activated.
The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.
When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.
At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
My best life advice:Take the high road.No matter how much stress, or strain, or consternation you are facing, take the high road.You will never regret it.
I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.
No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain.
Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.
...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.
Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.
The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.
When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.
I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.
If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.
Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.
A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.
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 whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.
Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.
We strain hardest for things which are almost but not quite within our reach.
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
