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.
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
You never have a comedian who hasn't got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every great clown has been very near to tragedy.
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.
The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.
In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Doc Holliday: [after killing Johnny Ringo] It would appear that the strain was more than he could bear.
Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.
How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
Yes, just like those flowers. There's something strained, but there's beauty in that. Something like that
Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.
Real life... Witches: Wiccan practitioners. Werewolves: rare strain of rabies. Zombies: Prions/Plague. Vampires: Hemophilia/Porphyria
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.
Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping.
I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:
I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
It is the nature of the business that you work unsociable, unpredictable hours and can get called away at a moment's notice to somewhere on the other side of the world. This can put a strain on home and personal life.
