Quotes About Strain

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

Relatively many autists are first-born children. There is also a pretty widespread conviction that the parents of autists are somehow different - for instance, many of them are very serious people or people who are themselves under some sort of strain.

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.

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

Love drains from you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering; the clocks stop and go and stop.

Hypersensitive to pressure, Rockefeller tended to stiffen up whenever he felt pushed.

The effort of having to look more or less like one's photographs is becoming such a strain.

An over-sensitive person in the country is always a strain.

During, he looked away from all the strain, all the scratchiness, all the fights that never got going, he closed his eyes and waited until her smile came back. He allowed himself to believe in that smile, that brilliant counterfeit of joy

Life is love, heartache and strain, Yet the strength to overcome it all keeps me sane.

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea

Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep yet

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

I stress a lot, sometimes.

Fear and stress - one creates the other.

Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury.

Stressed by any other name is fear.

Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals

Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy people to deal with.

Why should it hurt in my neck when I go down stairs? Does my neck take my weight? Does it?

Heroism was exhausting business.