Quotes About Pressure

The silence was deafening, pressing more heavily on Hollyleaf's ears than the stones that pinned her to the cold floor.

Adolescenti prolaze teško razdoblje. Odrasli se prema njima ponašaju kao prema djeci, ali o?ekuju da se oni ponašaju kao odrasli. Zapovijedaju im kao da su male životinje, a onda o?ekuju da reagiraju kao zrele, uvjek racionalne i samopouzdane osobe. Teško je to vrijeme izgubljenosti i traženja

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

It's not a major crisis that will typically cause a woman to melt down. Forces somehow rally to meet these big challenges when they come. It's the little things, the drip-drip-drip of Chinese torture, the dozens of daily irritations that, over time, can send us straight into the fetal position crying for our mommy. Or God. Or chocolate. Or medication. Or all four, depending on the day

Kitchens are places of violence.

Like so many of the things parents do out of loving solicitude, putting pressure on girls to lose weight has no good outcomes and a lot of bad ones.

Too many overweight teenage girls are being pressurised by their families to lose weight when what they in fact need is better nourishment (which would almost certainly help them lose weight along the way).

Its funny how silly things just pop into your mind when you're under pressure.

In some communities young men who hesitated to volunteer received packages containing petticoats, or were seized by boisterous mobs and thrown into ponds.7 Thousands of persons indifferent to enlistment, and many who were downright opposed to it, were swept into the ranks in 1861 by the force of articulate popular pressure.

But the thing is, sometimes my whole tough girl act gets a little old, even for me. Especially when it's what everyone expects from me, all the time.

Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.

I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.

the business of being a child in this country is rapidly disappearing into an abyss that consists not only of programs and tests but also of extracurricular activities.

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

THE RIGHT-HAND GRIP IS A FINGER GRIP. THE TWO FINGERS WHICH SHOULD APPLY MOST OF THE PRESSURE ARE THE TWO MIDDLE FINGERS.

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. His cares must still be double to his joys, In any dignity.

Greatness of name in the father… oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.

Whenever rules or guidance threatened the interests of favored groups, political pressure followed.

At the same time, we all knew the frustrations of struggling with extraordinarily complex problems under unrelenting public and political scrutiny.

But that's the baggage that comes with consequential policy jobs,

At the scheduled time, I found myself in the Oval Office, feeling a little overwhelmed

For much of the panic, the Fed alone, with its chewing gum and baling wire, bore the burden of battling the crisis.

But we had agreed in advance to be vague because we were intensely concerned that acknowledging our inability to save Lehman would hurt market confidence and increase pressure on other vulnerable firms.