Quotes About Pressure

Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852

When she felt the tears coming up, building like a great hard pressure inside her, hot, so hot she thought they would burn, she swallowed them down deeper and deeper until they became a hard little stone in her chest.

Should is my all time least favorite word! It's this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves.

You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. The power struggle permeates the training, education and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a community inevitably much face that ultimate internal question: to succumb to complete opportunism as the price of maintaining their rule, or risk sacrificing themselves for the sake of the orthodox ethic.

You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. This power struggle permeates the training, educating and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a community inevitably must face that ultimate internal question: to succumb to complete opportunism as the price of maintaining their rule, or risk sacrificing themselves for the sake of the orthodox ethic.

If he could smell the pre-spice mass, that meant the gasses deep under the sand were nearing explosive pressure.

Paul stepped past her, lifting his binoculars. He adjusted their internal pressure with a quick twist, focused the oil lenses on the other cliff, lifting golden tan in morning light across open sand. Jessica

La influencia de la política en el seno de una religión ortodoxa es inevitable. La lucha por el poder impregna el adiestramiento, la educación y la disciplina de una comunidad ortodoxa. Debido a esa presión, los jefes de una comunidad así deben afrontar inevitablemente un claro dilema interior: sucumbir al más completo oportunismo como precio para mantener su poder o arriesgarse al autosacrificio en nombre de la ética ortodoxa.

Piatra e grea ?i nisipul apas?, dar furia neghiobului e o povar? care le-ntrece.

Command must always look confident, he thought. All that faith riding on your shoulders while you sit in the critical seat and never show it.

Life was always a reaction to pressures.

The entire second-period sophomore girls' PE class thought my balls were uniquely and supremely beneath contempt. Great.

Pensó cómo en otros tiempos había pronunciado su nombre con entera libertad, pero ahora suponía una carga para él

Franz's domineering father expected his son to take up a profitable business career that would ensure social advancement for the family, as well as a successful marriage promising the same.

sometimes a thousand shoulders quake under a burden meant just for one.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son.

You have to understand, when you're 15 and you're doing this Steven Spielberg movie with megastars - Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts - you know you want to be cool. I don't know how cool I'm going to look with my belly button out!

I know I have a lot of expectations to live up to, which I need to do and am willing to do.

Being able to go forward has been good, you know? I'm lucky to have that ability, to pressure guys and make them falter and wilt.

Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how tough it is, but the people watching make it so much easier to play.

If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me.

It's always tough when you miss a Grand Slam, especially Wimbledon.

Wimbledon, for me, is the most important tournament of the year, so you know there's always going to be people expecting me to do well.