Strain Quotes - Page 15

• Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

  Alexander Pope

  Thanksgiving, Littles, Patient

  Alexander Pope, “Imitations Of Horace: The First Epistle Of The Second Book”

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• Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Art, Names

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.95, Delacorte Press

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• One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Waiting, Life Is, Waiting On God

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Hope: A Holy Promise”, p.62, Discovery House

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• When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they like another girl better, and whether they're going to ask you to something or other. It's a strain.

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Girl, Boys, Worry

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• One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Lonely, Stars, Sadness

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• I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

  Og Mandino

  Purpose, Cry, Sand

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• When the mind is opening to that unbounded pure awareness, the field of pure intelligence, simultaneously the body is losing stresses and strains, and thereby the clouds that were hindering the use of inner full creative intelligence in action, they begin to wither away.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Stress, Clouds, Creative

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• Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.

  Helen Keller

  Song, Flower, Eye

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.11, American Foundation for the Blind

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• When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.

  William Wordsworth

  Music, Gait, Seems

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.171

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• This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria.

  Alistair Maclean

  Country, Looks, Said

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• No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I am here for God to send me where He will.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Spring, Purpose

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.35, Discovery House

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• I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Taste, Responsible, Defined

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Strong Motion: A Novel”, p.171, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.476, Manonmani Publishers

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• Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

  John Milton

  Experience, Prophetic

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 173

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• Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that his monks strain the water they drink lest they inadvertently cause the death of any micro-organisms - could never believe that he would be indifferent to the sufferings of domestic animals caused by their slaughter of food

  Philip Kapleau

  Believe, Animal, Compassion

  Philip Kapleau (1982). “To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist Case for Becoming Vegetarian”, Harper San Francisco

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• I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Plato, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1962). “The Portable Emerson”

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• To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  War, Philosophy, Men

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• I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the figures the meanings of the demonstrations, meanings which I myself originally put into the figures and the text from my mind. But when I attempt to remedy the obscurity of the material by putting in extra words, I see myself falling into the opposite fault of becoming chatty in something mathematical.

  Johannes Kepler

  Fall, Reading, Science

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• Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

  Michael Rosenbaum

  Men, Pigs, I Realized

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• What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

  Raymond Williams

  Running, Heart, Break

  Raymond Williams (1985). “Loyalties”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• My Heart I'm not going to cry all the time nor shall I laugh all the time, I don't prefer one "strain" to another. I'd have the immediacy of a bad movie, not just a sleeper, but also the big, overproduced first-run kind. I want to be at least as alive as the vulgar. And if some aficionado of my mess says "That's not like Frank!," all to the good! I don't wear brown and grey suits all the time, do I? No. I wear workshirts to the opera, often. I want my feet to be bare, I want my face to be shaven, and my heart--you can't plan on the heart, but the better part of it, my poetry, is open.

  Frank O'Hara

  Running, Heart, Feet

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.231, Univ of California Press

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• The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Rain, Heart

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [182]

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• A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders.

  John Steinbeck

  Reading, Home, Men

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Stress, Disease, Normal

  Herbert Marcuse (1968). “Negations; essays in critical theory”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Hate, Reading, Dark

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