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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
— Anton Chekhov
I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.
— Ethel Merman
The ship groaned and growled beneath him like a constipated fat man straining to shit.
— George R R Martin
Flowed through me. He didn't pull away. It seemed as though he was straining forward, his upper body already over the gearshift
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.
— Joseph McCabe
Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.
— Carl Sagan
The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.
— Jeremiah P. Ostriker
I'm scared of becoming a noise crank, but I always just loved quiet. I love to have conversations without straining to hear...
— George Prochnik
Sometimes I can feel my bones straining
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.
— Milan Kundera
What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.
— George Bernard Shaw
Perceptive observers saw civilization thinned to a mere veneer, with barbarism surging just beneath the surface, straining for release.
— Bruce Brander
It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
He had known that the endless space below him that stretched out like a maw was exactly that: a mouth the size of the world, straining to swallow him.
— China Mieville
Basically, we've learned to delegate. We just grew tired of becoming too psychotic and straining to make the records ourselves.
— Stevie Jackson
Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.
— Robert A. Heinlein
He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.
— Gus Van Sant
He felt like a helium balloon straining skyward on a slender string.
— Jonathan Franzen
Overcrowded cities are spawning increasingly lawless suburbs. Waste is accumulating in and around them, straining the capacity to deal with it.
— Christian De Duve
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[ ... ] and yet the woman's existence, her straining to live, came touching him like naked skin.
— Yasunari Kawabata
Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
The thought of retirement set his nerves twitching and straining: he always prayed that death would come first.
— Graham Greene
Exert only calculated force where it will be effective, rather than straining and struggling with pointless attrition tactics.
— Ryan Holiday
We run, straining, gasping, and groaning, in our own separate directions, and the more we struggle the closer we're pulled together.
— Antti Tuomainen
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.
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The straining of dreams against the fabric of reality. Growing up meant burying possibilities, one after another.
— Anthony Doerr
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
— Jonathan Safran Foer