Strain Quotes - Page 5

• I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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

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• Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to get to the top. But somehow I never thought it would happen to me.

  Carl Lewis

  People, Suffering, Body

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• It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Men, Savages, Literature

  Lafcadio Hearn (1922). “Books and Habits”

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• I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.

  Ellie Goulding

  Pain, Believe, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.

  Paul Gillmor

  Gasoline, Devastation, Hurricanes

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• They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not.

  Jeremy Renner

  Long, Preparation, Training

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• For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire.

  Will Self

  Book, Writing, Fire

  "Will Self: modernism and me" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2012.

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• Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Book, Reading, Glasses

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton: A List of All the Ms. Emendations in Mr. Collier's Folio, 1632”, p.13

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• The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face

  Quentin Crisp

  Morning, Keys, Faces

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• Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cracks, Decay, Slides

  Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 5 (1936)

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• Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.

  Hanna Rosin

  Males, Different, Routine

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• Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

  Hanna Rosin

  Home, Brain, Arousal

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• All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Real, Capitalism, Hybrid

  Geoff Mulgan (2015). “The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

  Don Van Vliet

  Thinking, Play, Horny

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• The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

  John Updike

  Education, Children, Father

  John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

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• Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

  Bram Stoker

  Thinking, Mad, Long

  Bram Stoker (1904). “Dracula”, p.330, Hayes Barton Press

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• Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies that can strain a joint currency.

  Amity Shlaes

  Country, Independent, Europe

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• Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Stress, Home, Circles

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• If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.

  Arlen Specter

  War, Cancer, Thinking

  "Specter Claims Kemp Would Be Alive if Congress Better Funded Medical Research", www.foxnews.com. May 4, 2009.

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• We hear, "Oh, we need to patent GMOs and develop new strains and new chemicals because Nature can't provide what we need." I have to debate people all the time who say that Nature can't provide enough.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Gmos, People, Patents

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

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• The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine sacraments, knew there are in everyone innate strains of [original] sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit

  Origen

  Giving, Water, Baptism

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• All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its stresses and strains on whatever thrives on its surface. The ambitions and dreams of men are irrelevant to this planetary giant which pursues its own way in its own manner. Man is its child, tenant and still, to this date, its captive.

  Jack Kirby

  Dream, Children, Stress

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