Overstraining Quotes

#1. Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.

Rabindranath Tagore

#2. Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.

Barbara Corcoran

#3. Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life.

Clemence Poesy

#5. (sergeant thinking about an excellent detective who's threatening to quit)
For a squad sergeant, having Worden working for you was like having sex: When it was good it was great and even when it wasn't so hot, it was still pretty damn good.

David Simon

#6. I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl.

Mark Lawrence

#7. Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.

Charles Kennedy

#8. Global warming alarmists invariably try to make their case by resorting to rhetoric, dogma, opinion, and emotion. The closest thing to scientific data in their articles is the occasional chart claiming a poorly understood correlation between atmospheric CO2 and the Earth's temperature.

Walter Cunningham

#9. We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.

Ken Calvert

#10. No matter what you do for someone-no matter if you feed him a bottle as a baby or curl up with him at night to keep him warm or give him food so he's not hungry-make one wrong move at the wrong moment, and you become someone unrecognizable.

Jodi Picoult

#11. I went down again. My heart and I went down again. I was aware of her hand. I was aware of my breathing. I could no longer see it, but I was aware of her face.

James Baldwin

#12. My dad used to have an expression - 'It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.'

Joe Biden

#13. A good Dom knows what their sub's pain tolerance is, their likes and dislikes, and won't go beyond what their sub can handle.

B.S.M. Stoneking

#14. It's the beauty of the Web. You can pretend to be anything you want. But people figure out pretty quick if you don't live up to it.

Sophia Amoruso

#15. Theo Wanne has done it again!!!!!! He has brought a new dimension in mouthpieces that will not only stand the test of time, but will be a benchmark mouthpiece for many, many years to come! The bar has been raised.

Jeff Coffin

#16. I am Envy ... I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Christopher Marlowe