Quotes About Strain

She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.

You strain at the next instant, refuse to live here and now.

I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seeing around me the things of the earth. I felt convinced that every movement and every thought was forced, and that one had to be on one's guard against them.

Removing the socks and wringing them out over the Los Angeles Times, Hagopian said, "People play wacky games in these parts. I've been wondering if there isn't some new kind of wackiness virus, something that the screwed-up air around LA causes to form. The wackiness strain, first it takes over greater Los Angeles and then it slowly creeps across the country. I myself am immune to it, but that's no help if everyone else comes down with it. The government

there was a fold between them—a wrinkle in their relationship, in their universe—and it was big, and came between them.

A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.

would strain credibility that such privileges would be awarded to an intelligence defector who had refused to cooperate with Russian authorities.

Stress is such a force, and tension is such a condition; these both severely destroy health and place physically under strain; such invisible powers affect like a silent killer of a happy life.

computer program can play havoc with climate-control systems. A particularly nasty pathogen—mutant strains of bacteria

Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.

A man who kisses the woman may find for a few seconds an illusory pleasure in mind, but then a pain in the form of stress and strain in his brain.

A person who has evil intention and plays with people's emotion for selfish gain can neither be cured with meditation nor medication, and even does not feel relieved of stress & strain through any amount of Yoga session.

A person who plays own life as a game of a chess only creates mess and so generates often strain & stress in the life of the people.

A song that is the sole voice of the soul merely soothes the stress of the heart, else it only causes strain to the brain

The best lesson to lessen stress and strain in own life is keep people mostly away from networking as they are often and mainly increasing tension through senseless talking and worthless hobnobbing.

The people who create strain & stress for the population play life as a chess and they could be seen talking of making moves like queen, rook, bishop, knight and others.

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

The basic reason why erotic experiences outside of marriage create psychological strain is because the void between spirit and flesh is more closely felt.

The troops were cracking because they could not absorb what was happening to them, because they knew themselves to be utterly powerless (bravery had little survival value when one was on the receiving end of a bombardment), and because they had no confidence that the generals who had put them in danger knew what they were doing. Men whose courage was beyond challenge could and did break down if subjected to enough strain of this kind.

Initially, there were a lot of fears that Ebola could mutate to become the airborne Andromeda strain that would wipe us all out.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

her body aching as her muscles tightened painfully.