Strain Quotes - Page 17

• 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.

  David Ginola

  Weekend, Climbing, Safety

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• You are a light that will always guide me, a whisper I'll always strain to hear.

  Lora Leigh

  Light, Guides, Guide Me

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• There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Serious, Spirit, Irony

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• We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Passion, Order

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open. Two points are unreliable; with nothing to anchor them, there is nothing to stop them drifting in opposite directions. If it is string that binds, it will eventually snap and the points will separate; if elastic, they will continue to part, further and further, until the strain reaches its limit and they are pulled back with such speed that they cannot help but collide with devastating force.

  Kate Morton

  Anchors, Opposites, Two

  Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.

  Aristotle

  Men, Thinking, Nerves

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• The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this art is required for success in the international arena, but perfect mastery eludes even the very best chessplayers!

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Art, Player, Perfect

  Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited

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• We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.

  Warren Christopher

  Strong, Russia, Self

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• There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Memories, Fall, Twilight

  "The Philosophy of Ingersoll: To Plow is to Pray, to Plant is to Prophesy, and the Harvest Answers and Fulfils".

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• It is a foolish woman who expects her husband to be to her that which only Jesus Christ Himself can be: always ready to forgive, totally understanding, unendingly patient, invariably tender and loving, unfailing in every area, anticipating every need, and making more than adequate provision. Such expectations put a man under an impossible strain

  Ruth Graham

  Jesus, Husband, Men

  Ruth Bell Graham (2001). “Never let it end: poems of a lifelong love”, Baker Pub Group

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• God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and pens. He is with us in our wheelchairs, or on our hospital beds, when all we can do is sit or lie flat. When we envision Him and His purpose in what we do, then we begin to grow aware of His presence in the middle of it. We are able to engage in our inward conversation with Him as we work, naturally, without strain. He becomes our partner, our collaborator.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  God, Lying, Dust

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• The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.

  Hoagy Carmichael

  Writing, Technology, Found You

  Hoagy Carmichael, Stephen Longstreet (1999). “The Stardust Road & Sometimes I Wonder: The Autobiography of Hoagy Carmichael”

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• Whatcha doin', Freak Girl?" --------------------------- "What does it look like, brainiac?" I shot back, even surprising myself with the force of my jab. "I'll give you three guesses. No, wait. Don't strain yourself. Wouldn't want to hurt your head." I waved a flyer in his face, channeling my inner mean girl. "See these? I'm hanging them...on a...wall!" I spoke the last part slowly, as if addressing a dim-witted child. Which wasn't far off the mark, now that I thought about it. "With tape," I added, waving at the dispenser. "You know-sticky, sticky!

  Mari Mancusi

  Mean Girls, Hurt, Children

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• There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives

  Dennis Prager

  Government, Bigger

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• Shouldn't we be against procreation at this point in time? With overpopulation and the strain on the resources on this planet? Shouldn't we reward people who don't spawn?

  Bill Maher

  People, Rewards, Resources

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• Thou didst, in strains of eloquence refin'd, Inflame the soul, and captivate the mind.

  Phillis Wheatley

  Soul, Mind, Eloquence

  Phillis Wheatley (2001). “Complete Writings”, p.115, Penguin

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• 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.

  Chuck Todd

  Islam, Doe, Threat

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 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.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Ghetto, Sacrifice, Makeup

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• Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.

  Farrah Fawcett

  War, Cancer, Challenges

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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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• The whole system is under tremendous strain. Although the increasing pace of change is essential for developing new solutions, it is also pushing society to its limits. In global structures, it all comes to a head in the form of sudden crises. This leads to tipping point situations in which the seemingly impossible becomes possible.

  Franz Josef Radermacher

  Humanity, Essentials, Impossible Becomes Possible

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• There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the 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

  Mind, Weakness, Floating

  Swami Vivekananda (1935). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

  Mark Twain

  New Year, Holiday, Dozen

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• As love is full of unbefitting strains,
  All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,
  Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,
  Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,
  Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll
  To every varied object in his glance

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Love You, Eye

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1625, BookCaps Study Guides

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• She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golden ale she swallowed from a pewter tankard. She slept deeply that night and longer than she had intended.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Tired, Beer, Night

  Kathleen Winsor (2000). “Forever Amber”, p.654, Chicago Review Press

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