(163 quotes found)
“Hence I pronounce this, that as old experience doth attain to something like prophetic strain, so all comely facility traces back to long pondering; intuitions are the reward of ancient gropings”
Stephen MacKenna
“Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.”
Stephen Spender
“Such strains as would have won the ear / Of Pluto, to have quite set free / His half-regained Eurydice.”
John Milton
“I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:Follow your spirit; and upon this chargeCry "God for Harry! England and Saint George!"”
William Shakespeare
“I'd be surprised if the strain was localized to Asia. Most of the survey work that we've done leading up into the end of the quarter also indicated that business was quite difficult in the U.S., and I wouldn't rule out a miss in Europe as well.”
Chris Shilakes
“It's just a little strain.”
Chris Reitsma
“It puts awful strain on your legs and back.”
Bryn Terfel
“This cost the foundation a substantial amount of money that it could not afford, ... It put a substantial strain on resources that could have been better used to fight AIDS.”
Charles Thompson
“It pushed the sound up to the edge and caused a little bit of a strain. That was part of the (H-D-H) aesthetic, that tension in the sound.”
Charles Sykes
“We had not just one event but several that eventually caused 3 million claims. It caused an exceptional strain on claims-handling resources.”
Bob Hartwig
