Quotes About Straining

The way the vocal folds work is that they can get inflamed and in pain, but actual tears in the folds are somewhat rare. I've never torn anything. Been too strained plenty of times.

That's when it comes, the urge to shout in the church, the nursery, the crowded movie house. It's an itch at first. Inconsequential. But that itch is soon a torrent behind a straining damn. Noah's flood. That itch is my whole life. Here is comes now. Cover your ears. Build an ark. Eat me! I scream.

Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.

By the highway, the Hudson—the library books straining at their delibags, corners poking. Straining my arms, throttling my hands, the numb rewards of literacy.

I stayed up there for about ten minutes, straining for any sign of light, even the flicker of headlights on a distant road. Then I climbed back down. "It's dark," I said, after I leaped to the ground. "Um, yeah," Sam said. "It's night. How the hell you expected to see anything--" She stopped as she realized what I was really saying. "Oh.

The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters.

A writer has to strain to make the reader recover the process in the words 'human being'; we talk about 'a being' and 'beings.' This book is about human being as an activity. It is not about the doing which a human does; it is about the doing which a human is.

the goal was a mental flash, achieved somewhere below consciousness. In these ideal instants one did not strain toward an answer as much as relax toward it." —Richard Feynman (Nobel Laureate, Physics)

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:

Of love there are two sorts. The first is that whose highest manifestation is seen in the affection of the sexes. This is always egoistic. It arises from either sex being imperfect without the other; and it is the straining of one sex towards that other which will complete it, because alone it is unable to realize perfectly its nature.

Lucy doesn't like orange juice with floating bits,' George said. 'You remember.' 'Oh, yes. That's right. They get caught between your teeth, don't they?' I was staring at him. My warm feeling had partially retreated. 'I'll take the orange juice. So Holly stayed over last night?' 'Personally I've always thought straining it through your teeth is part of the fun,' Lockwood said. 'You can pretend you're a blue whale.

Even though running is physically straining, it's mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you've accomplished something.

I know you don't like parties. Neither do I. But sometimes I wonder . . . perhaps we're the only ones who were meant to be able to enjoy them." "I am afraid I have no talent for it." "Not for this. But do you think any of these people are enjoying it? They're just straining to be more senseless and aimless than usual. To be light and unimportant . . . You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

she was struck by how private American forces of mercy were straining to offset America's public agents of cruelty.

He could see the inchworm in his mind even now, that snip of green elastic with it's tiny blunt legs, coiling and stretching its way toward the tabletop, on a mission whose nature was a mystery. Survival, he understood now - that was all. That contracting and straining, that frantic rearing-up to look around: It was nothing less than the urgent business of staying alive.

The sight of me puffing and straining apparently amused him to no end.

Tiy, the seeress, sat nearby, upright in a chair, her fingers gripping its arms. Nimezzar had never seen her relax; she always seemed to be straining forward against life.

Sensuality oozed from her straining limbs.

The boundary was a shivery place where realities crossed and strained to overtake each other.

If this was The Lord of the Rings and I had a smart British voice like Cate Blanchett, I could tell you the background of the events of that fall in a really suspenseful way. And you'd be straining to hear the rest.

they were straining so desperately for admission to paradise that they had forgotten that paradise had always been their address.

I'm scared of becoming a noise crank, but I always just loved quiet. I love to have conversations without straining to hear...

Vianne was thankful for the bell. She was a teacher, for God's sake. What did she know to say about dangers such as these? How could she assuage a child's fear when her own was straining at the leash?