Strain Quotes

• A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Women, Humor

  Daniel Deronda bk. 2, ch. 15 (1876)

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• As in walking it is your great care not to run your foot upon a nail, or to tread awry, and strain your leg; so let it be in all the affairs of human life, not to hurt your mind or offend your judgment. And this rule, if observed carefully in all your deportment, will be a mighty security to you in your undertakings.

  Epictetus

  Running, Hurt, Feet

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• I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

  Og Mandino

  Mountain, Purpose, Sand

  Og Mandino (2007). “The Greatest Secret In The World”, p.52, Jaico Publishing House

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• Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cracks, Break, Burden

  Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 5 (1936)

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• I know the woman has no soul, I know The woman has no possibilities Of soul or mind or heart, but merely is The masterpiece of flesh: well, be it so. It is her flesh that I adore; I go Thirsting afresh to drain her empty kiss. I know she cannot love: it is not this My vanquished heart implores in overthrow. Tyrannously I crave, I crave alone, Her splendid body, Earth's most eloquent Music, divinest human harmony; Her body now a silent instrument, That 'neath my touch shall wake and make for me The strains I have but dreamed of, never known.

  Arthur Symons

  Women, Heart, Kissing

  Arthur Symons (1919). “Poems”

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• I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Men, Shoes

  "English Traits". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856.

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• If we're going to talk about economic fairness, or about fairness, one of the most pressing economic issues facing families, seniors, and job creators in Missouri and across America is the strain of skyrocketing gas prices.

  Roy Blunt

  Senior, Jobs, America

  "Obama warns on student loan interest" by Josh Boak, www.politico.com. April 21, 2012.

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• Strain every nerve to gain your point.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Nerves, Gains

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• [Jack Nash from The Andromeda Strain] was not in the original film, but he was kind of a Geraldo Rivera almost kind of reporter that had a drug addiction. We start the story in rehab, and then he gets the roots of the story. I loved him.

  Eric McCormack

  Roots, Addiction, Drug

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.

  Alfred Austin

  Flower, Simple, Cities

  Alfred Austin (1896). “Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin”

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• But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

  Alice Walker

  Trying, Easy, Without God

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• Tears were a blessing; they were a relief; they did wash the ache from the heart, ease brain strain, and encourage the soul.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Heart, Blessing, Soul

  Gene Stratton-Porter (1923). “The White Flag”

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• That's put a strain on his left-hand knee.

  John Scales

  Football, Hands, Left Hand

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• Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain on the muscles is such that the circulation of the blood is retarded. Standing even for a short time proves exhausting compared with walking and running though it be for a long time ... Nature delights and is restored by alternating and varied actions.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Running, Health, Exercise

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• The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on the muscles and tendons.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Health, Hands, Paper

  Bernardino Ramazzini (1964). “Diseases of Workers”

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• Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of your being shrieked protest, something like momentum happened. It took your wits and your concentration and your continued willing sweat, of course, to keep it going, but the success of success had ball bearings.

  Fannie Hurst

  Success, Sweat, Momentum

  Fannie Hurst (1959). “Imitation of Life”, New York : Permabooks

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• Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws himself into the purest flame.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Spiritual, Wine, Flames

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.83, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward. All wheeled vehicles sink up to their axles in the slime. Even tractors can only move with great difficulty. A large portion of our heavy artillery was soon stuck fast... The strain that all this caused our already exhausted troops can perhaps be imagined.

  Gunther Blumentritt

  Horse, Military, Team

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• Things like dating, family, and friends are just so valuable to me and I didn't want to put any strain on any of those relationships and you can see how the cameras around people can make people a little bit loopy. I didn't want to bring that into my life.

  Whitney Port

  People, Dating, Family And Friends

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• There are a lot of leg strains on the inside of the legs. There's a lot of pressure on your legs and knees. Shoulders are another big thing. We play a physical sport and those are the areas that go.

  Gerad Adams

  Sports, Play, Legs

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things. No, I have no desire to know what, or who I was once; or what, or who, I shall be in the ages to come. This belief in immortality makes present living the more attractive. It gives you all the time there is. You will always be able to finish what you start. There is no fever or strain in such an outlook. We are here in life for one purpose: to get experience. We are all getting it, and we shall all use it somewhere.

  Henry Ford

  Philosophy, Years, Giving

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• Home-making today should have a background of scientific training because only in this way can real efficiency be achieved. The average girl wants to be able to keep her house with the least possible strain, and in order to do this she must have good training. This can best be achieved by taking a good course in home economics.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Girl, Real, Home

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• Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Stress, Goal, Achievement

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