Strain Quotes

“Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in our elementary schools are wearied by the mechanical act of writing, and the interminable intricacies of spelling; they are oppressed by columns of dates, by lists of kings and places, which convey no definite idea to their minds, and have no near relation to their daily wants and occupations; while in our public schools the same unfortunate results are produced by the weary monotony of Latin and Greek grammar. We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children–to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavor to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts. The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten almost all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.”
― John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life

“When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Nothing can unman you like an un-man.”
― Chuck Hogan, The Strain

“Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Family time can put a strain on the mentally deranged." She clucked her tongue as though out of pity.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“But a far more virulent strain survived. It's having sex with your thoughts. You'll give birth to increasingly more monstrous ideas.”
― Grant Morrison, Nameless

“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Now, look, since when did you think being good meant being happy?”

“Since always.”

“Since now learn otherwise. Sometimes the man who looks happiest in town, with the biggest smile, is the one carrying the biggest load of sin. There are smiles and smiles; learn to tell the dark variety from the light. The seal-barker, the laugh-shouter, half the time he’s covering up. He’s had his fun and he’s guilty. And men do love sin, Will, oh how they love it, never doubt, in all shapes, sizes, colors, and smells. Times come when troughs, not tables, suit our appetites. Hear a man too loudly praising others, and look to wonder if he didn't just get up from the sty. On the other hand, that unhappy, pale, put-upon man walking by, who looks all guilt and sin, why, often that's your good man with a capital G, Will. For being good is a fearful occupation; men strain at it and sometimes break in two.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The stresses and strains of life mould us into our mature selves. The key to life is to accept the wisdom of our later years while maintaining our youthful enthusiasm and curiosity for the world.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Would you like a back rub?' Who can resist this offer? A back rub is a priceless gift of caring. High on everybody's list of favorite things, a back run refreshes you for the day's tensions. It offers a respite from physical strain, from taking care of others, and from life's stresses and responsibilities.”
― Anne Kent Rush, The Back Rub Book

“And all the time the line of force which bound her to her husband stretched and vibrated so that her heart in secret haemorrhage, gushed blood.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“The easiest thing to think was that he was going to die. This was not exactly an intent to commit suicide, though he did consider suicide, it was rather a sense of the impossibility of surviving much longer, whatever he did, whatever he chose. He felt rent apart by an unremitting mental, felt as physical, strain. When he was alone he groaned aloud.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“Complex steels our energy with the help of misgivings, strains, and fear of consequences for wrong decisions”
― Sunday Adelaja

“I think that love is the measure of how much strain a back or a heart will endure for someone who's worth it.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Don't strain too much to see my downfall, I have the ability to face any pitfalls in my life”
― Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“To be able to stay strong you have to strain useless objects.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Partake not in the drama your trauma causes.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia