Overstrain Quotes

#1. Aphrodite," she said. "Venus?" Hazel asked in amazement. "Mom," Piper said, with no enthusiasm.

Rick Riordan

#2. Maybe if the death had occurred on the other side of the street, I'd be watching from here with different kids, acting as foolish. Maybe the difference between horror and holiday was just the width of an ordinary street.

Dean Koontz

#3. Rest and a complete change," said George. "The overstrain upon our brains has produced a general depression throughout the system. Change of scene, and absence of the necessity for thought, will restore the mental equilibrium.

Jerome K. Jerome

#4. The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#5. A colleague like Barnabas could comfort him (Paul) in illness and keep him from overstrain when fit.

John Charles Pollock

#6. Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Mason Cooley

#7. Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

Samuel Butler

#8. The whole point about beauty is its imperfection.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#9. Much of traditional Southern cooking parallels Italian peasant cuisine. Consider cooked radicchio with polenta. It is not dissimilar to our grits and greens.

Steven Satterfield

#10. Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another.

Craig Venter

#11. The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.

Julian Jaynes

#12. To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can carry it without overstrain, is really a fine art.

Horace Kephart

#13. What you must understand about me, Pudge, is that I'm a deeply unhappy person

John Green

#14. Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.

Jean De La Fontaine

#15. Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

Henry Ward Beecher

#16. The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

Bruce D. Perry

#17. I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

Joshua Homme

#18. It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.

Dag Hammarskjold

#19. Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries.

Peter Thomas Bauer