Strain Quotes - Page 19

• 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.

  Bruce Catton

  Running, Rowdy, Apes

  Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.3, Vintage

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• A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Prison, Crosses, Humans

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• Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

  Florence King

  Writing, Metaphor

  "The Florence King Reader". Book by Florence King, 1995.

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• 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.

  Pindar

  Ambition, Hunting, Hands

  Pindar (1942). “Some Odes of Pindar: In New English Versions”

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• I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.

  Ansel Adams

  Fall, Taken, Past

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• Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic strains Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee?

  Hartley Coleridge

  Men, Jubilee, Earth

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.285

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• One of the basic ways to avoid injury is to always make sure to stretch and warm up your body. This will loosen up your muscles, which will help to avoid common strain injuries such as shin splints and ankle strains.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Ankles, Body, Way

  "Fitness Tips From Professional Dancers" By Tiffany Tse, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.

  Michael Drayton

  Fashion, Long, Muse

  1594 Ideas Mirrour,'To the Reader of These Sonnets'.

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• The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

  Aeschylus

  Song, Triumph, Shapes

  Aeschylus (1964). “The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.”

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• L'amoureux qui n'oublie pas quelquefois meurt par exce'  s, fatigue et tension de me  moire (tel Werther). The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).

  Roland Barthes

  Memories, Doe, Excess

  1977 Fragments d'un discours amoureux.

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• If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Song, Sweet, Heart

  Henry Van Dyke (1927). “Chosen poems”

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• I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Way, Pleasure

  The lullings and the relishes of it. 'The Pearl', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.

  Alexander Pope

  Music, Complaining

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1851). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.145

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• The Department of Agriculture announced that it will ban six new strains of E. coli. Which explains why the hot dog vendor outside my building is now just selling napkins.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Dog, Agriculture, Hot

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• When panting sighs the bosom fill,
  And hands by chance united thrill
  At once with one delicious pain
  The pulses and the nerves of twain;
  When eyes that erst could meet with ease,
  Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shun
  Ecstatic conscious unison, -
  The sure beginnings, say, be these
  Prelusive to the strain of love
  Which angels sing in heaven above?

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Pain, Angel, Eye

  "Love and Reason". Poem by Arthur Hugh Clough, 1844.

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• We're all like the little sailor. From the harbors we hear the strains of accordions and the murky soapy noises of the docks, from the mountains we receive the dish of silence that the shepherds eat, but we don't hear more than our own distances. And what distances without end and without doors and without mountains!

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Distance, Doors, Silence

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• We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search beneath the surface we discover that a myriad of strains mix together to create a particular person's nature. The faults we perceive are likely to be the effect of circumstances, the psychological response to trauma, abuse, rejection, heartbreak, insecurity, pain, confusion, or disease.

  Radhanath Swami

  Pain, Confusion, Judging

  "The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami". Book by Radhanath Swami, 2009.

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• The strain on Roger (Maris) was unbelievable. After I dropped out the reporters only had one guy to go to. They surrounded him everywhere he went. He had big clumps of hair falling out. That he went ahead and did it was unbelievable.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Fall, Hair

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• Changing ideas is a strain not to be lightly incurred, particularly when these ideas are intimately related to one's self-esteem ... men have elaborated an explanation for their situation in life... Their rationales are endowed with moral qualities.

  Robert E Lane

  Self Esteem, Men, Ideas

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• If I had a long-term partner, I dont think Id be an actor. Itd be too much of a strain; you have to work too hard to balance that life with a family and a mortgage and all that stuff - it would be too much.

  Rory McCann

  Thinking, Long, Balance

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• A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Cobwebs, Cables

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• The wind has a language, I would I could learn!
  Sometimes 'tis soothing, and sometimes 'tis stern,
  Sometimes it comes like a low sweet song,
  And all things grow calm, as the sound floats along,
  And the forest is lull'd by the dreamy strain,
  And slumber sinks down on the wandering main,
  And its crystal arms are folded in rest,
  And the tall ship sleeps on its heaving breast.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Song, Sweet, Sleep

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• ... there are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain.

  Edith Wharton

  Worship, Spine

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.5433, Delphi Classics

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• Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality,
  Or modest anger of a satiric spirit,
  That hurts or wounds the body of a state,
  But the sinister application
  Of the malicious, ignorant, and base
  Interpreter; who will distort and strain
  The general scope and purpose of an author
  To his particular and private spleen.

  Ben Jonson

  Hurt, Ignorant, Criticism

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• Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only in a culture of clarification, which is now becoming harder and harder to detect with the naked eye.

  James Thurber

  Powerful, Eye, Brain

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