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Quotes About Strain

I think Donald Trump's had a pattern of leaping on the bandwagon of anything that he feels will further his candidacy, and if that means sowing more fear and paranoia and playing into a kind of xenophobic populist strain, then that's what he will do.
~ Louis Theroux
If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.
~ Mark Dayton
Sports men and women need hip replacements. It was all those years of classical ballet and forcing turn-outs. It can be quite detrimental to your body.
~ Craig Revel Horwood
Mental health resources are under huge pressure and there are a lot of people who are not necessarily getting the support they need in time.
~ Zoe Ball
Centre-back takes more out of you mentally than physically.
~ Jamie Carragher
Incredible how rapidly the best relationship, if it is stressed beyond its capacity, wears thin and finally exhausts itself.
~ Thomas Bernhard
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.
~ Kenneth Scott Latourette
Strain, I now accepted, was good. Instead of seeing this discomfort as a sensation to avoid, I began to understand it the same way that a body builder understands muscle burn: a sign that you're doing something right. Inspired by this insight, I accompanied a promise to do more large-scale paper deconstructions of this type with a trio of smaller habits designed to inject even more deliberate practice into my daily routine. I describe these new routines below: My
~ Cal newport
Good evening, Empress Zanther. How are you feeling?" Zanther smiled faintly back. "I can sum it up in one word, my friend: stress.
~ Gene Steinberg
In economics, as in politics, no national reservoir can stand the strain when everyone is turning on the taps and few are bothering to see that the catchments to the reservoir are working.
~ Geoffrey Blainey
A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
~ George Eliot
They had become, year by year, month by month, mysterious to her, her love for them an extended pain, a web or field of force, of which she felt at times the almost breaking tension.
~ Iris Murdoch
Culture, with us, ends in headache.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.
~ Farrah Fawcett
turning an immense pecuniary Mangle.
~ SUSANNE ALLEYN
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
~ Swami Vivekananda
During the season, I'm sore everywhere.
~ P. J. Tucker
I can throw a football all day and my arm doesn't get tired. If I throw a baseball more than a certain amount of time, it's going to get a little sore.
~ Kyler Murray
by persons squeezed by life.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
did not cost him anything—except the emotional drain.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought.
~ Robin Marantz Henig
This slide of people [refugees] has freighted the concept of citizenship and altered our perceptions of space - public and private. The strain has been marked by a plethora of hyphenated designations of national identity.
~ Toni Morrison
Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury…
~ Carol Anshaw