Quotes About Pressure

People put too much emphasis, too many demands, on courage, and they all put their own standards on it anyway

A leader's who everybody looks to for answers, even when there aren't any. Who everyone blames when things go wrong. A leader's the one who has to do the dirty work, even if it's the damn dishes.

Her mother would be married by then, and just back from her honeymoon. Maddy and Theo would be her brother and sister, and back in school. She would be planning her own wedding, though she'd pressured Tyler not to announce their engagement yet.

her biggest problem lay in the struggling to live up to expectations. Including her own.

A leader's who everybody looks to for answers, even when there aren't any. Who everyone blames when things go wrong.

Part of the presidential job description is the absorption of public vitriol.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

Or, I could just sit in the bushes and pump the hand pump until the plumbing was superpressurized to 110 psi. This way, when someone goes to flush a toilet, the toilet tank will explode. At 150 psi, if someone turns on the shower, the water pressure will blow off the shower head, strip the threads, blam, the shower head turns into a mortar shell. Tyler only says this to make me feel better. The truth is I like my boss. Besides, I'm enlightened now. You know, only Buddha-style behavior.

Anytime some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.

Too much school. Would you rather be dead?! Would you rather die? Here, on your knees in the back of a convenience store?!

I loathe the kind of game-show context in which so much of our lives is determined: proving my memory and mental skills in a sedentary situation under the pressure of limited time.

They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or art director says. Like Tyler says, even a souffle looks pumped.

She tries to not ask, to stop asking, but the effort is like trying to un-pop a balloon.

With a gun barrel pressed between you're teeth, you speak only in vowels.

Los libros de cirugía plástica, los panfletos y los folletos prometían ayudarme a llevar una vida normal, una vida feliz; pero esto se parecía cada vez más a lo que me han enseñado a querer. A lo que quiere todo el mundo.

nails. The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

In Miss Chen's English class, we learned, 'To be or not to be...' but there's a big gray area in between. Maybe in Shakespeare times people only had two options. Griffin Wilson, he knew that the SATs were just the gateway to a big lifetime of bullshit. To get married and college. To paying taxes and trying to raise a kid who's not a school shooter. And Griffin Wilson knew drugs are only a patch. After drugs, you're always going to need more drugs.

People in France have a phrase: Spirit of the Stairway. In French, Esprit d'Escalier. It means that moment when you find the answer but it's too late. Say you're at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So, under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party...

The handwriting of blood pressure.

Todos olham para mim. Não importa o que eu faça, eles ainda querem mais, melhor, mais rápido, diferente, mais novo, maior.

Das Sterben erscheint uns als die größte Schwäche überhaupt, schlimmer als Alkoholismus oder Heroinsucht, und in einer Welt, wo man der Faulheit bezichtigt wird, nur weil man sich nicht die Beine rasiert, gilt das Totsein als der ultimative Charakterfehler. Als ob man vor dem Leben weggelaufen wäre – sich einfach nicht genug Mühe gegeben, sein Potential nicht voll ausgeschöpft hätte. Du Drückeberger!

Tío, la casa se está llenando —le digo—. Es como si viviéramos en la parte de abajo de un reloj de arena. Como si se nos estuviera terminando el tiempo. Como ser enterrados vivos.

We've just lost cabin pressure. I ask Marla what my name is. We're all going to die.