Quotes About Pressure

We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.

Men who work at Time have a life expectancy which is not long said the young man from Newsweek

A fire had begun to spread in me. It was burning now in my stomach and my lungs were dry as old leaves, my heart had a herded pressure which gave promise to explode.

When you start to open a door, the pressure has to be greatest in the beginning, yet the door moves the least.

They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter, unwittingly vindictive.

Those who give too much are always expected to give more, and blamed when they reach the point of refusal.

Sami wywo?ujemy u siebie stres, poniewa? czujemy, ?e musimy co? zrobi?. Musimy. Ja ju? tak nie czuj?.

Don't make fun of me! Ender said. I'm afraid I'm going crazy.

Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.

Another oral exam, huh?' Peter said. 'Shut up, Peter,' said Valentine. 'You should relax and enjoy it,' said Peter. 'It could be worse.' 'I don't know how.' 'It could be an anal exam.

He was getting to the point that he didn't understand why tax attorneys didn't just kill themselves.

We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world on his shoulders.

Ender estaba tendido en su cama con los ojos fijos en el techo. Desde que era comandante no dormía más de cinco horas diarias.

Nobody would notice you, except to feel sorry for the little kid. But I made sure they all noticed you today. They'll be watching every move you make. All you have to do to earn their respect now is be perfect.

Insouciant heroes aren't brave or relaxed. They're just trying not to embarrass themselves in the moments before they die. She

Most communities attempting to survive under irresistible pressure from a dominant culture develop a myth that allows them to believe they are somehow a special people. Chosen. Favored by the gods.

It cannot rain but it pours." —JONATHAN SWIFT Oh

She said that femininity encoded mandates that were far less forgiving than anything men were familiar with.

There are only three major vote getting days in Absoroka County, and I can't remember the other two. Oh God, no. It's Pancake Day. I thought about shooting myself. I could see the headlines: Sheriff shoots self, unable to face pancakes.

The truth was that I didn't know which I was. I wasn't allowed to claim the thing I felt and I didn't feel the thing I was supposed to claim.

Either Ault was a lot harder than my junior high had been, or I was getting dumber- I suspected both. If I wasn't literally getting dumber, I knew at least that I'd lost the glow that surrounds you when the teachers think you're one of the smart, responsible ones, that glow that shines brighter every time you raise your hand in class to say the perfect thing, or you run out of room in a blue book during an exam and have to ask for a second one.

And the things you said, the walk from chapel to the schoolhouse, your backpack, tests, these were a bridge running above the rushing water of what you actually felt. The goal was: learn to ignore what's down below. Fine if you met someone else who was the same as you, but you had to realize that nothing another person could do would make you feel better about any of it.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion