Strain

Famous quotes containing the word strain:

“You always strain tuh be de bell cow, never be de tail uh nothin’.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

“You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 23:24.

“The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men’s inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)