Strain Quotes
So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.
I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method.
It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society.
I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
Each step, each strain of the eye Opens out a new horizon; And every day throws in our way Something new, to grow more wise on.
The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.
The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be - that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them.
The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.
Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.
I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.
My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is no more of a strain than a dinner at home.
Does the terror threat we're facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain of the religion.
I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite.
Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?
Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.
There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.
There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.
Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure.
Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing Will change for you soon to a livelier strain.
A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.
All the billions of people who now inhabit our planet are putting a terrific strain on its aura, making it difficult, even for evolved people to become aware of their past-life knowledge and talents.
Tears were a blessing; they were a relief; they did wash the ache from the heart, ease brain strain, and encourage the soul.
It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.
Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?
The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!
It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.
If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song.
The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.
When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.
Having a profile means you have to be cautious of who you let into your world, as you don't know if they're being genuine or not, but it's more that it can be a strain on your relationships.
Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.
I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.
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 being killed.
When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.
