Strain Quotes - Page 4

• We differ with the Israeli Government about a number of things, and they know that. In the past, I have discussed with Prime Minister [Ariel] Sharon these issues. The fact that we differ about something or the other shouldn't be a matter of strain.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Past, Government, Numbers

  Source: www.gov.za

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• It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society.

  Joseph Stalin

  Mean, Requirements, Way

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• Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.

  Plato

  Art, Men, Epic

  Plato (2017). “Plato: The Complete Works including 31 Books (illustrated)”, p.433, Plato

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• At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

  David Cameron

  Cutting, Errors, Hype

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• The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

  John Cornyn

  Long, Enemy, Islam

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• It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

  Nigel Farage

  People, Giving, Immigration

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  Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

  Edna Ferber

  Lonely, Past, People

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• Syria is on the back end of basically a decade-long drought. Over the last decade, farmers and herders have been ravaged in Syria forcing them to give up and move to urban areas. This has put a huge strain on urban resources, and it's surely one of the reasons for the uprising there.

  Thomas Friedman

  Giving Up, Moving, Uprising

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• Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Weakness, Misery, Constant

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

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• But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

  Robert Browning

  Fall, Eye, Laughing

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.241, Wordsworth Editions

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• Going to Morocco was massive; that's where I really found music which had the African syncopation and swing mixed with Arabic strains, and together they had this transporting, bittersweet quality.

  Justin Adams

  Swings, Together, Quality

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I had a little bit of a vocal strain at a certain period of time that made me lay off the singing, and while I was lying off the singing, I was pursuing the acting.

  Robert Davi

  Lying, Singing, Acting

  "INTERVIEW: Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, "Davi’s Way" And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski, www.hamptons.com.

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• When I write, I strain with every wizened fibre of my weathered frame to analyze every possible angle of any given subject.

  Jim Goad

  Writing, Angle, Given

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• If you deconstruct the movies that have done well, Pixar-type movies that do incredibly well and make hundreds of millions of dollars, they have a strain of decency and conservatism that maybe even their filmmakers don't even recognize. Yet, we cross our fingers that by mistake, liberal filmmakers and liberal producers are going to by mistake make conservative movies. We have to become invested in it, or else we have no excuse to complain.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Mistake, Complaining, Dollars

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.

  Howard Rheingold

  Drama, Made, Theater

  Source: medium.com

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• at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely everything that is anything, this puts a bit of a strain on things. Outside the boundaries of the universe lie the raw realities, the could-have-beens, the might-bes, the never-weres, the wild ideas, all being created and uncreated chaotically like elements in fermenting supernovas. Just occasionally where the walls of the worlds have worn a bit thin, they can leak in.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wall, Lying, Reality

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• When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

  Frantz Fanon

  Teacher, Philosophy, Intelligent

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• I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Writing, Drug, Tonight

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Dagon”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• I think [song 'Can't Stop Workin'] it's the constant work; performing and traveling. It gets to be a bit of a strain. But if you pace yourself, which I've managed to do, you can go pretty well.

  Neil Young

  Song, Thinking, Pace

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• I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was enlightened when he destroyed the house of body and soul into which he would otherwise have been forever reborn. This is clearly antinatalism.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Strong, Philosophy, Buddhism

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I do 45 minutes a day of stretching and abdominals and I lift light weights of half a kilo. Otherwise, if you strain your muscles, then you have to be quiet and stay without any exercise for a long time. I do heavier weights gradually. I'm going to become Superwoman with oil on my muscles!

  Sophia Loren

  Exercise, Oil, Light

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The ordinary Nigerians have lived as neighbors down the millennia. I was talking about the British who came and merged a whole number of mini states and big states into one unit. But those people were always there, and they always managed to live side by side with their neighbours. So they were not owned or run by one kingdom. It was not practically impossible for these people when they have different languages and religions to be neighbors. So it is that habit of neighbourliness which is destroyed and put under great strain again and again when you have things like massacres.

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Talking, Numbers

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dirty, Clothes, Illusion

  Hunter S. Thompson (1999). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.

  Joe Namath

  New York, Stress, League

  "Ladies love Teflon Tom -- no matter what" by Jemele Hill, www.espn.com. January 31, 2008.

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• Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.

  Theresa May

  Stress, People, Community

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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