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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.
Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.
Shouldn't we be against procreation at this point in time? With overpopulation and the strain on the resources on this planet? Shouldn't we reward people who don't spawn?
You're a dancer; don't strain, don't force it. Be one with the hurdle, let it happen, relax while running fast.
Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.
Goals should always be made to a point that will make us reach and strain.
When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are activated.
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.
To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.
Strong growth means increased use of energy at a pace that can strain the capacity to supply what is needed at a reasonable price.
I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.
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.
There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives
Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.
Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping.
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.
The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!
Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?
Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.
When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.
I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets.
A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.
Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.
All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.
Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing
Will change for you soon to a livelier strain.
It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.
I don't want to wrestle past 35. There's just too much physical strain with 250-pound men slamming into each other.
Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.
So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.
I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.
There seems to be a common strain of miserliness in the American people when it comes to throwing away toothpaste tubes which havea little left in the bottom.
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.
America has always had an apocalyptic strain. Yet it also seems to believe that if, or when, The End comes, it will still come out on top.
Penalties put too much strain on one player. It could ruin his career if he's not a strong character.
When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
Initially, there were a lot of fears that Ebola could mutate to become the airborne Andromeda strain that would wipe us all out.
There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.
God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.
I hope to continue doing TV, and I think that what I've learned on 'The Strain' will come in handy.
I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
That you are fair or wise is vain,
Or strong, or rich, or generous;
You must have also the untaught strain
That sheds beauty on the rose.
It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.
The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.
One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star
The idea of physical strain and discipline, the question of how and when you leave that life behind - they're things I'm familiar with on one level or another.
The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.
Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song.
We strain hardest for things which are almost but not quite within our reach.
I think these al Qaeda franchise groups have clearly evolved into a much more dangerous strain.
I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.
The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters.
