Quotes About Strain

him under the heaviest strain to barter his convictions for the sake of holding office.

The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.

And families now, families who have been separated throughout the year, assemble once more together. Now under these conditions, my friend, you must admit that there will occur a great amount of strain. People who do not feel amiable are putting great pressure on themselves to appear amiable! There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy.

Present­ly, when the strain re­laxed, Blore said: 'There are habits and habits! Mr. Lom­bard takes a re­volver to out-?of-?the-way places, right enough, and a primus and a sleep­ing-?bag and a sup­ply of bug pow­der, no doubt! But habit wouldn't make him bring the whole out­fit down here? It's on­ly in books peo­ple car­ry re­volvers around as a matter of course.' Dr. Arm­strong shook his head per­plexed­ly.

Success had its penalties.

This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist.

And families now, families who have been separated throughout the year, assemble once more together. Now under these conditions, my friend, you must admit that there will occur a great amount of strain. People who do not feel amiable are putting great pressure on themselves to appear amiable! There is at Christmastime a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c'est entendu, but nevertheless

Dr. Armstrong was driving his Morris across Salisbury Plain. He was very tired … Success had its penalties.

I'm working myself to death.

A pioneering work in the study of neurasthenia, American Nervousness builds its case through an elaborate mechanical metaphor: the nervous system is like a machine presently under strain in response to the pressures of the machinery of civilized life.

An hour series is a killer. It's hard on you physically.

F2's much harder physically on the arms and almost on the whole body than F1 is.

The vocal cords are a muscle, and like any other muscle in the body, they can be strained. So you have to warm up.

remarkable achievement', then went on to say that 'both Union and democracy are under increasing strain these days, with the future of both in doubt'.66 However, most Indians were by now comfortable with the diversity within. They could see what bound the varied religions, races and regions:

I get a little tighter when I have to play the perfect Captain American-type of dude.

Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.

The strain on her face was still there, like weathered rocks under a thin mantle of snow.

You're far too young for a governess,' mused Lizzie as she stirred cream into her tea. 'And the strain of behaving would probably kill you,' muttered Frank.

It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams.

Enough, I say. Our guests will be arriving shortly, and I would as lief they were left in the dark about this particular strain of insanity in the family that makes you two revert to childhood at the drop of a napkin.

Training can get on a man's nerves. There is no profit or use in denying it.

I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.