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Quotes About Strain

strain is a ratio, which is to say a number, and it has no units, SI, British or anything else. All
~ Unknown
an inelasticity there that suggests... damage. Or anxiety.
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?
~ John Milton
I stared into the darkness, straining to hear past the beat of my own blood.
~ Madeline Miller
How hard were the bones in the hand of an adult, how tender and soft the flesh of a child, how easy to bend and strain those young, unfinished bones.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Kidd could feel an incipient hernia when he even thought about that night. . . .
~ John Sandford
İnsan bazen o kadar kendi d???nda davran?r ki, size '' Bunu yapm?? olamaz. Karakterine ayk?r?, dedirtir. Belki de deÄŸildir. Yaln?zca baÅŸka bir aç? söz konusu olabilir veya yukar?dan aÅŸa??dan gelen bask?lar kiÅŸinin davran?? ÅŸeklini deÄŸiÅŸtirebilir.
~ John Steinbeck
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.
~ John Updike
When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Complex steels our energy with the help of misgivings, strains, and fear of consequences for wrong decisions
~ Sunday Adelaja
Most people cope in some fashion or other with the various strains under which they live, or they simply come out in spots, or leave home, or get drunk.
~ Unknown
Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.
~ Homaro Cantu
The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.
~ Edwin Way Teale
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
~ ee cummings
His countenance, dear Ellakins, is no strain upon young female eyes!
~ Mark Dunn
Laughter ispleasant, butthe exertion istoomuchfor me.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
You could have a family of one and still drive them apart.
~ Marlon James
Though hand-to-hand combat has become rare, much modern warfare continues to involve physical strain such as those who have not engaged in it can scarcely imagine.
~ Martin Van Creveld
Still, on average, 97 percent of the MRSA isolates were USA300. In addition, 74 percent of them were a single identical strain, dubbed USA300–0114. For a bacterium that usually was extraordinarily diverse, this was unheard-of.11
~ Unknown
Clearly, being anxious is a full-time and rather exhausting occupation.
~ Unknown
What kind of pressure was she talking about? Atmospheric? Gravitational? "Yes," I said. "A lot. Everywhere, there is some kind of pressure.
~ Matt Haig
Ha estado usted sometido a mucha presión últimamente? No entendía bien: ¿a qué tipo de presión se refería?, ¿atmosférica?, ¿gravitacional? —Sí —dije—. A mucha. Por todas partes hay presión de una clase u otra.
~ Matt Haig
Generally, seasonal flu is a remnant of a strain of the flu virus that once caused a pandemic.
~ Unknown