Stress And Strain Quotes

#1. Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.

Walter Lippmann

#2. Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals

Spencer W. Kimball

#3. Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.

Gerald M. Loeb

#4. I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

Don Young

#5. Allowing beauty a place in the soul was a powerful antidote to the stress and strain of mortal life.

Susan Vreeland

#6. In the stress and strain of life today, with space rockets zooming, loudspeakers thundering in our ears, and a lot of other sounds, the voice of your subconscious goes unnoticed.

Al Koran

#7. Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.

Theresa May

#8. When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.

Joe Namath

#9. You're really hitting on me? After we just met in jail?"
"Is it working?

Cora Carmack

#10. Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

Jacqueline McKenzie

#11. Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#12. I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.

Truman Capote

#13. My best life advice:Take the high road.No matter how much stress, or strain, or consternation you are facing, take the high road.You will never regret it.

Tim Gunn

#14. He looked so happy and I wondered about that, his capacity for happiness. Where did that come from? Did I have that kind of happiness inside me? Was I just afraid of it?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#15. It's kind of strange to be in a band for ten years, because you've just given ten years of your lives to it from touring, and you don't know [or] even notice the passing of time.

Ryan Jarman

#16. I only put an album out every two or three years.

Paul Weller

#17. To be honest, when I was growing up - I think it's because of Kate Winslet and 'Titanic' - I always wanted to do period.

Lily James

#18. Well," Han said with a sigh, "we've gone from no-plan to stupid-plan. That's progress of a sort.

James S.A. Corey

#19. A woman isn't as old as she thinks she is. She's as old as men think she is.

Billie Burke

#20. Man ... need not stand alone. Prayer will open doors; prayer will remove barriers; prayer will ease pressures; prayer will give inner peace and comfort during times of strain and stress and difficulty.

Ezra Taft Benson

#21. My head is killing me, my throat is killing me, my stomach bubbles with toxic waste. I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid if this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#22. Achievements can bring you satisfaction but not happiness.

David D. Burns

#23. If this was a normal cover for a normal book,I would tell it's FANTASTIC!GRIPPING!
(according to all book covers they're fantastic and gripping)

Pseudonymous Bosch

#24. When I pick up one of my children and cuddle them, all the strain and stress of life temporarily disappears. There is nothing more wonderful than motherhood and no-one will ever love you as much as a small child.

Nicola Horlick