Top Strain Quotes
Two new reports indicate that, under Bush, the Army is overstretched and under enormous strain. The National Guard and reserves have been weakened and we are experiencing numerous recruiting problems.
Jim Clyburn
There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.
Ken Follett
Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard.
Hugh Miller
No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.
Johnny Weissmuller
I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.
David Ginola
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Abraham Lincoln All Strain Quotes
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.
Cleveland Abbe 
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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
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I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Og Mandino
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Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.
Chaim Potok
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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
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Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.
Patricia Arquette
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We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.
Christiane Amanpour
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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
John Updike
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Popular Strain Authors
Abraham LincolnGeorge EliotLyndon B. JohnsonJohn UpdikeJohn McCarthyWarren ChristopherRobert BrowningWilliam Lyon Mackenzie KingChristiane AmanpourEllsworth HuntingtonLafcadio HearnPaul GillmorC. L. R. JamesChaim PotokDon Van Vliet
Ken FollettOg MandinoTom TancredoConrad VeidtKenneth Scott LatouretteHenry L. StimsonJim ClyburnWilliam FalconerDavid GinolaErnest RenanLouise JamesonBram StokerJohnny WeissmullerEarl BlumenauerDon Young
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