Quotes About Strain

I don't want to wrestle past 35. There's just too much physical strain with 250-pound men slamming into each other.

I get sharp pains in my wrist and fingers.

The thing is the game is getting tougher and tougher and we have to ask a lot of our bodies.

Harm to our necks, jaws, backs, and bowels. Anxiety can twist us into emotional pretzels. It can make our eyes twitch, blood pressure rise, heads ache, and armpits sweat.

Sebastian looked alarmed at her stiffness, but Eric took it in and chuckled. Riding astride would have been easier, he said. You put twice the strain on yourself with that unnatural position. Oh, I know, she replied with a grimace. Every muscle told me about it this morning, and I actually DID have a hot soak before I went to bed. Sebastian looked blankly at the two of them for a moment, then blinked and looked relieved. Oh, you're saddle sore! I'm sorry--

Any blisters on your shoulder blades would weep painfully, as the weight of the pack went back on. Then somehow your mind would shut out the pain, for a while. Until, by the end of the march, your shoulders would start to wilt and cramp up as if they were on fire.

This lack of social capital puts enormous strain on working-class and poverty-stricken parents because they not only don't know where to turn for help but also can't afford it when they do.

The only semi serious injury I have had was when I strained my MCL. But I'm always beat up in some form or another.

It's enough of a strain killing people. I've no time for deer.

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations of every natural act.

But too much stress causes the suspension bridge to collapse, the string of the violin to snap, and the drum head to burst. And stress can kill you.

With Conte, it was back-breaking both in training and in games.

Writers are not psychotherapists. Their job is to give readers stress, strain, and pressure.

Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

Tragische Spannung, sie ergibt sich nicht nur aus dem Übermaß einer Gestalt, sondern jederzeit aus dem Mißverhältnis eines Menschen zu seinem Schicksal.

If the eye really was a muscle, I had pulled it long ago.

She'd taken on the obligation to be a treasure. And the strain was starting to show. People paid a price for this kind of orderly existence, all this obedience.

And they took the strain and off they went up the field the plough cutting clean. I can mind how I stood there and watched him my heart full of pride for him and I breathed in the smell of the earth. Nothing like the smell of new turned earth. A cold metal smell it is, but clean and good like the first breath of life.

Escherichia colia O157:H7 is a relatively new strain of the common intestinal bacteria (no one had seen it before 1980) that thrives in feedlot cattle, 40 percent of which carry it in their gut. Ingesting as few as ten of these microbes can cause a fatal infection; they produce a toxin that destroys human kidneys.

Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

marriage is a great strain upon love.

When I sing it, it affects me so much I get sick. It takes all the strength out of me.

If I had to strain my brain with any more of that stuff I would go mad.

Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence … Words, strain, Crack, and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.