Quotes of: Strains Keyword

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

Stephen Spender

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Florence King

I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.

Tony Abbott

Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family.

Joe Scarborough

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

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

Ernest Renan

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Even though running is physically straining, it's mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you've accomplished something.

Biz Stone

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

Donald Barthelme

Captain: AUTO, you are relieved of duty! [strains up and switches AUTO to "manual"] AUTO: Nooooooooo.

WALL·E

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

Paul Berg

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

Michael Rosenbaum

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

Abraham Lincoln

It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.

The Judas Strain

There's a mystical strain in every country, and eclipses are likely to bring that out.

Richard Dawkins

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

Raymond Williams

When you're younger, the mental strain of being a successful actor, jumping from role to role, and trying to have some kind of personal life, can really be terrible.

Kathy Baker

I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.

Elia Kazan

The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.

P. J. O'Rourke

...being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words...

A Familiar Rain

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova