Strain Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• Let's pick it up," the man behind her said. "How many more of the tranquilizers do you have?" "Just three," the girl panted. "Gonna have to restock." "Right. I'll just... head down... to the convenience store, and-" she didn't finish, the strain too much.

  Marissa Meyer

  Girl, Men, Three

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• Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing
  Will change for you soon to a livelier strain.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Time, Time Love, Lays

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.664, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

  Henry Adams

  Love, Broken Heart, Pain

  Henry Adams (2015). “Democracy: An American Novel!”, p.168, eKitap Projesi (PublishDrive)

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• 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.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Fool, Doe

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.222

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• Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

  Paul Robeson

  Freedom, Drawing, New Day

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• 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.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Time, Rain, Roots

  'Thou art indeed just, Lord' (written 1889)

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• The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Skills, Effort

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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

  John Scales

  Football, Hands, Left Hand

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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