Quotes About Strain

so the increase put a strain on their budget.

I remember how I hated the pressure and the worry of work.

I forced a smile. It was the one I'd been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between.

But the one thing I don't understand is the incessant strain of the mind and will, the diabolical waste of spiritual strength.

The peculiar things a singer did with words, the vowels that turned into other vowels under the strain of a high note, made it all harder and weirder. Picturing

There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.

while the hunt for Osama bin Laden was still ongoing, there were serious talks about engineering a particular strain of flu virus that would target only him.

She felt she had followed him enough, it had been such an enormous strain, always pushing against her grain, it had drained her of too much strength, now she could only collapse, inevitably collapse.

Better not think about Mrs Barum either; it was really such a strain going on being fair.

I will tell him, but when I've reached a state when I can't pretend any longer.' 'Isn't it a strain, all this pretence?' Lorraine gave a little laugh. 'All couples pretend about something. We'd go mad if we were honest all the time. Successful relationships are made up of white lies, small attempts at flattery, aren't they? We want our partners to be happy, so we tell them the stories they want to hear.

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

Directing a film is a lot of physical work.

The sport is rough. It does wear and tear on the body.

The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that.

You're using the same body parts over and over again, eventually there will be wear and tear.

It definitely puts a strain on family life - I miss them like mad. Being a working mother I've been juggling house and career from day one. I want to hold out for telly for the second half of the year.

Arguing leave the participants emotionally exhausted and mentally depressed.

The discomfort in the room was growing.

the tasks piled upon Coster had grown "far heavier than any one man ought to bear, or could bear with safety.

Keeping up the pose of indifference must have taken its own toll.

Perhaps these daily rituals helped him to deal with underlying tensions that might otherwise have become ungovernable, for although he tried to project an air of unhurried calm, he was under terrific strain in creating his oil empire.

morem pellis hispidus distentione nervorum—

Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.

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.