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Tag Name "Strain" (287)

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It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.
Henry James
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No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain.
Chester A. Arthur
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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.
Bruce Catton
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Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.
T. S. Eliot
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Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.
Ruth Gordon
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No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
Ernest Renan
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Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.
Jon Krakauer
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Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and vice we all stand upon thin ice. Are we brave or are we mice, here upon such thin, thin ice? Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?
Dean Koontz
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What you find I think in the mystical strain of Catholicism is that you're put in relationship with God, and you have many opportunities not only of talking with God in petitionary prayer, but also of listening to God, being attentive to God, as happens in contemplation.
Kevin Hart
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O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not spent amiss.
Robert Bridges
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Life is love, heartache and strain, Yet the strength to overcome it all keeps me sane.
O.C.
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When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.
William Wordsworth
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There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.
Donald Barthelme
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My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. It goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather.
Sam Shepard
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People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.
Aleister Crowley
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Penalties put too much strain on one player. It could ruin his career if he's not a strong character.
Terry Venables
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There's a pretty significant list of couples who have split up after doing couples reality shows. And not necessarily the show being to blame, but it might have created strain in a relationship that wasn't solid.
Dean McDermott
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You're a dancer don't strain, don't force it. Be one with the hurdle, let it happen, relax while running fast.
Renaldo Nehemiah
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Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
John Milton
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We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to provide these sanctuaries, so that people may be in the presence of forces larger than those of the moment.
Ken Burns
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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.
Carol Vorderman
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I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.
George Herbert
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Does the terror threat we're facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain of the religion.
Chuck Todd
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