Overstraining Quotes & Sayings

After one last kiss, she stepped away, wrapping his jacket tightly around her. "I'm keeping the coat."
"Okay."
"I'm going to wear it to bed."
"Okay."
"With nothing on underneath it."
Winking, she slipped inside, leaving him on the porch with that mental image ringing through his head. — J.M. Darhower

I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away. — Stephen Chbosky

For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories. — Anne Rice

The best way not to find the bed too cold is to go to bed colder than the bed is. — Carlo Borromeo

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success. — Rabindranath Tagore

Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior. — Ermanno Bencivenga

When we die, our spirits go to the spirit world, and our bodies return to the elements of the earth until the resurrection. — John Bytheway

May your union be filled with love
Annealed by passion
Built on a strong foundation
And tempered by time — Richard L. Ratliff

You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are. — Rudolf Steiner

But for all the horrors that Reggie had seen, She had also witnessed the wonder of the human spirit fighting back. It wasn't about eradicating fear; it was about overcoming it. And that was something that was so personal a nature that if she had to keep entering Fearscapes one by one, seeking out the souls trapped in hell one by one, then that was what she would do. — Simon Holt

Many simple peoples feared the exceptional individual as a disintegrating force; there is a Chinese proverb that "the great man is a public misfortune. — Will Durant

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand ... We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us. — Jean Cocteau

When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response. — Ann Hood

When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.
[Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.] — Tacitus

When I was in improv workshops or doing stand-up or writing comedy with others, or just doing comedy, I just laughed. Funny was funny; I loved to laugh. I always liked people I found generally funny. — Michael Keaton