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Quotes About Strain

A load would sink a navy.
~ William Shakespeare
Everybody is tense. Tad does his best to
~ William Swanson
I was thinking..." "We know," Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker
~ Davis Bunn
You'll know you've officially become sleep deprived when you have the unique feeling of being drunk, high, and on a psychiatric hold all at the same time. Some
~ Dawn Dais
The whole dead weight of my growing fear fell upon me and shook me. Then I burst out laughing too. It was the only thing to do: and the sound of my laughter also made me understand his. The strain of physical pressure caused it-- this explosion of unnatural laughter in both of us; it was an effort of repressed forces to seek relief; it was a temporary safety-valve.
~ Algernon Blackwood
she was crooning to herself: "Oh, my back and oh, my bones ! Oh, my back and oh, my bones!
~ Alice B. Emerson
Yet somehow Jesus' actions were not matching John's expectations. And that distance between what John thought Jesus would do and what Jesus actually did was straining John's certainty of who Jesus was.
~ Alicia Britt Chole
This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria.
~ Alistair MacLean
Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more.
~ Mose Allison
I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.
~ David Ginola
A lot of basketball players have tendinitis. It's known as jumper's knee, and it just comes from all the pounding our knees take.
~ Luol Deng
I feel burnout comes as a result of consistent over-simulation.
~ Dinesh Paliwal
People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
~ Larry Wilmore
How could any healthy girl be expected to care for a mentally unbalanced man?
~ Richard Yates
And yet these same oceans, by separating America by thousands of miles from other continents, have given America a virulent strain of isolationism that has persisted to this day.
~ Robert D. Kaplan
Yes, he answered, it's a strain being witty at my age. I'm giving it up.
~ Knut Hamsun
jobs that require employees to display (positive) emotions that they may not actually be feeling can be psychologically demanding and stressful.
~ Jeffrey Pfeffer
The amount of all the pretending she'll have to do exhausts her.
~ Jenna Blum
Straw met camel's back. Breaking commenced.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The danger of the fanatic to the development of a movement is that he cannot settle down. Once victory has been won and the new order begins to crystallize, the fanatic becomes an element of strain and disruption.
~ Eric Hoffer
Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing.
~ Tom Rath
Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.
~ Andrew Eldritch
Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.
~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee
There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious. We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain.
~ Robert Jordan