Top 534 Strain Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes, if I really strain my brain, I can even do multiplication.

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

We're in an era where they've sanitized home life in movies to such a degree that there is a certain home life that might be true if you have two perfect parents, and a nanny, and a couple babysitters, and support, and lots of money, and there's no strain at home, or whatever. But for most people, there's strain, you know? There's a lot of pressure, things can't be perfect, parents can't be perfect all the time. There's a divorce, there's money issues, whatever. People work, so you don't always have these vast reserves of patience every time your kid goes crazy.

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

Irritation for some men was their response to strain.

There was never any strain, because it becomes a strain only if you don't love what you are doing. I loved every moment of making these films.

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

Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms which are to do with prayer. The mystical strain is the strain whereby the whole day can be given over to prayer through what we call lectio divina, prayerful reading of Scripture, through practice of meditation of when one uses the imagination and the intellect with respect to images, and then finally, and most difficult of all, contemplation, where one empties the mind of all images and all ideas, all concepts, in order to be completely attentive to God.

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.

Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity.

There was always the paranoid strain in American politics, particularly on the Right.

You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant.

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

I think that conservatism as we understand it is coming under great strain during the era of Trump.

At my club, Portsmouth, my foot pains were diagnosed as a strain of the syndesmotic ligament.

To accomplish nothing and die of the strain

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

Interacting with other people does not come naturally to me; it is a strain and requires effort, and since it does not come naturally I feel like I am not really myself when I make that effort. I feel fairly comfortable with my family, but even with them I sometimes feel the strain of not being alone.

You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.

Going home means getting comfortable being who you are and who your soul really wants to be. There is no strain with that. The strain and tension come when we're not being who our soul wants to be and we're someplace where our soul doesn't feel at home.

Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in sheer joy. The strain on a violin string when stretched to the uttermost gives it its strength; and the stronger the strain, the finer is the sound of our life for God, and He never strains more than we are able to bear.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

... there are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain.

This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They strain against the string and strain against it, and then something happens, and that string gets cut, and they just float away. And maybe you never see the balloon again . . . Or maybe three or four years from now, or three or four days from now, the prevailing winds take the balloon back home . . . But listen, kid, that string gets cut all the time.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.

In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.

I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.

I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

Life is love, heartache and strain, Yet the strength to overcome it all keeps me sane.

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

Signing autographs is weird. I'm an introvert, so it's been a strain in that way.

I'm pain in the spoken form; This new strain came from where hope is gone.

A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

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

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

The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.

The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.

Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.

I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.

marriage is a great strain upon love.

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.

My most frequent admonition to athletes and coaches is: train, do not strain.

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.

I don't really strain my voice.

There's nothing that can put more strain on a relationship than running for office.

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.