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Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Ten million years will not put a strain on the clock of eternity.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.
— Edith Wharton
Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.
— Joseph Addison
There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line.
— Rosamond Marshall
The breakfast was rather silent, but not with strain.
— John D. MacDonald
The pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.
— Edward Weston
What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.
— Raymond Williams
Of its persistent, artless strain: Naught so can soothe a soul's own pain, As making glad another soul!
— Paul Verlaine
Gentlemen, why do you not laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me day and night, if I did not laugh, I should die.
— Abraham Lincoln
That fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful.
— Edgar Allan Poe
It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.
— Tiger Woods
You're a dancer; don't strain, don't force it. Be one with the hurdle, let it happen, relax while running fast.
— Renaldo Nehemiah
Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals
— Spencer W. Kimball
Deep in the Underthing, stones warm beneth her feet, Auri heard a faint, sweet strain of music.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Nothing can unman you like an un-man.
— Chuck Hogan
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.
— Charles Duhigg
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.
— Horace
Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:
— Sara Gruen
One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star
— Maud Hart Lovelace
Penalties put too much strain on one player. It could ruin his career if he's not a strong character.
— Terry Venables
Katherine Grey was born with the power of managing old ladies, dogs, and small boys, and she did it without any apparent sense of strain.
— Agatha Christie
Allowing beauty a place in the soul was a powerful antidote to the stress and strain of mortal life.
— Susan Vreeland
Where you girls from? Don't answer if you don't feel like it. I don't want you to strain yourself.
— J.D. Salinger
Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.
— Homaro Cantu
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
— Ernest Renan
An uncomfortable marriage can not bear the strain of the death of a beloved donkey.
— Merrie Haskell
The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.
— George Bernard Shaw
There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.
— Peter De Vries
I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.
— Jonathan Franzen
Irritation for some men was their response to strain.
— Guy Gavriel Kay
I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.
— Mason Cooley
Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.
— Sun Tzu
Real life ... Witches: Wiccan practitioners. Werewolves: rare strain of rabies. Zombies: Prions/Plague. Vampires: Hemophilia/Porphyria
— Solange Nicole
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.
— Patricia Arquette
A difference of taste in jokes, is a great strain on the affections.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had seen even well-established marriages shatter under the strain of smaller things. And those that did not shatter, but were crippled by mistrust
— Diana Gabaldon
Each step, each strain of the eye Opens out a new horizon; And every day throws in our way Something new, to grow more wise on.
— Robert B. Leighton
If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
— Winston Churchill
For I am bound with fleshly bands,Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope;
I strain my heart, I stretch my hands,
And catch at hope. — Christina Rossetti
When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
— Thomas Harris
Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.
— Edwin Way Teale
Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit ...
— Farrah Fawcett
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strain every nerve to gain your point.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Strain your brain more than your eye.
— Thomas Eakins
It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
— George Bernard Shaw
Some offenses will be more challenging than those for which we've been trained. This extra strain may cause
— John Bevere
Unity to be real must survive the severest strain without breaking.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Train, don't strain.
— Arthur Lydiard
Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.
— Paul Robeson
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
— Alexander Pope
That's put a strain on his left-hand knee.
— John Scales
We strain hardest for things which are almost, but now quite within reach.
— Frederick William Faber
Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.
— Mahatma Gandhi
One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.
— Oswald Chambers
Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain.
— Jack London
I'm going to my room," Jessie Kay called. "Y'all do me a favor and argue loud enough so I can listen in without having to strain myself.
— Gena Showalter
Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playingWill change for you soon to a livelier strain. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.
— Christiane Amanpour
She's the bridge between the doctors and the people, and you can see the strain of balancing between those two worlds.
— Gayle Forman
The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters.
— Jeffrey Sachs
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.
— Margaret Rutherford
when time is tomorrow but still carries a strain of today, when we are wiser and reborn all at once.
— Rakesh Satyal
Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure.
— Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Initially, there were a lot of fears that Ebola could mutate to become the airborne Andromeda strain that would wipe us all out.
— Richard Preston
The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!
— Archibald MacLeish
It is too great a strain for a woman to bear. I did not think so at first, but I know better now.
— Bram Stoker
I don't really strain my voice.
— Daryl Hall
My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.
— William Shakespeare
She was a rare psychotic-confessional-poet strain of salmonella.
— Augusten Burroughs
If music be the food of love, play on. 1 Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, 2 The appetite may sicken and so die. 3 That strain again! It
— William Shakespeare
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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.
— William Wordsworth
