Quotes About Strain

It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.

Sometimes if I get too aggressive, I get real winded.

There's no way anyone could know of her marital strain. Yet Fareed's words cut close to the bone. Much too close.

The strain of pretending everything was normal had been agonizing. How was she going to keep this up for the next week… month… year?

The hours my husband works makes me feel like a single parent, which I never want to be...

All propositions which set all the truth on one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain.

I'm working myself to death.

Tension, apprehension, and dissension

Fatigue and distress tended merely to sharpen Grey's fine-cut features

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

He felt oddly comfortable with the man, he realized, with a feeling of surprise. Part of it was sheer fatigue, of course; all his usual reactions and feelings were numbed by the long night and the strain of watching a man die by inches. The entire night had seemed unreal to Grey; not least was this odd conclusion, wherein he found himself sitting in the dim dawn light of a country tavern, sharing a pitcher of ale with Red Jamie Fraser.

The man's a Scot, wee Fergus." Jamie's voice was as calm as his face, but I heard the small note of strain in it. "Whisky's what he wanted.

I feel tired. Today was so eventful, and such a strain. Life generally is, these days. I don't want to do any more thinking. In fact I can't do any more thinking. My brain's all full of spots of light and darkness, circling in confusion.

The mere strain of modern life is unbearable; and in it even the things that men do desire may break down; marriage and fair ownership and worship and the mysterious worth of man.

Hope waits but does not sit. It strains with eager anticipation to see what may be coming on the horizon. Hope does not pacify; it does not make us docile and mediocre. Instead, it draws us to greater risk and perseverance

continuing to think about job demands during breaks may result in strain.

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

The day-to-day exhausted me!

Her voice sounded like a string that was fraying.

Some offenses will be more challenging than those for which we've been trained. This extra strain may cause

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

slope of the stress-strain diagram measures how readily each material strains elastically under a given stress.

Resilience may be defined as 'the amount of strain energy which can be stored in a structure without causing permanent damage to it'.