Quotes About Pressure

After that night, I really saw the heavy trip his family laid on him. To them, he was the Second Coming, the man of the house at age fourteen. Maybe that's why River always took himself so seriously," Hawke said.

One is in the cultural taboo against rounded bellies. Fashion dictates that both men and women must have flat bellies. The gaunt fashion-model look still has power over certain segments of the population, as does the ramrod-straight military-inspired look for men.

Mia," Kim said, an edge of warning in her voice signaling the end of her patience. "You're starting to act like one of those girls. Do you need to get me a gun?

Suddenly, it's all too much. Bryn and the bump watch. Vanessa with my high school yearbook. The idea that nothing's sacred. Everything's fodder. That my life belongs to anyone but me.

Time has a weight to it, and right now I can feel it heavy over me.

I'm the one shot, the heir and the spare, so you have to make damn sure your one investment pays off because there's no backup.

TIME HAS A WEIGHT TO IT AND RIGHT NOW I FEEL IT HEAVY ON ME.

She felt almost tearfully grateful to be off the hook, and residually angry because she was always on the hook.

She's the bridge between the doctors and the people, and you can see the strain of balancing between those two worlds.

Suenan como un centenar de bombas de tiempo esperando por explotar.

They'd known, of course, that the burden of beauty was carried by women—after all, there were never any men in the waiting room at Dr. Youngblood's—but it was only when they'd relieved themselves of the weight that they understood how heavy it was.

Jonge meisjes gingen er prat op pervers te zijn; als men vermoedde dat je op je zestiende nog maagd was, had dat in die tijd op elke school in Berlijn als belachelijk gegolden.

No matter how much I may love—scratch that, loved, past tense—Josh, I was no dummy. Everyone knows the Y chromosome carries with it the instinctive urge to lie under pressure. Which, incidentally, was what Josh was going to be under when I found him. Serious pressure. On his larynx.

Without pressure, there would be no diamonds. Without tests and trials, you wouldn't know your own strength—or weaknesses.

Should—a word of anguish rather than consolation.

Impending death makes one run faster. I think that's probably why they fire a gun before track meets.

Much of my career has involved rewrites of critical systems. You would think such a thing is easy—just make the new one do what the old one did. Yet they are always much more complex than they seem, and overflowing with risk. The big cut-over date looms, and the pressure is on. While new features (there are always new features) are liked, old stuff has to remain. Even old bugs often need to be added to the rewritten system.

But that's like throwing gasoline on the fire. Developers are even worse than networking people. Show me a developer who isn't crashing production systems, and I'll show you one who can't fog a mirror.

It's not a good sign when they're still attaching parts to the space shuttle at liftoff time.

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you get off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache . . . unless you play golf.

There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense by the attacked society itself

Good evening, Empress Zanther. How are you feeling?" Zanther smiled faintly back. "I can sum it up in one word, my friend: stress.

One of the easiest ways to dominate a man is to demand something he cannot supply.