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Quotes About Pressure

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
~ Lily Tomlin
Reality is the leading cause of stress.
~ Lily Tomlin
Even when you win the rat race , you're still a rat .
~ Lily Tomlin
The abundance of work presses hard on the smallness of time.
~ Unknown
During the 1980s, however, the Court came under increasing pressure to repudiate Roe v. Wade. First the Reagan administration and then the administration of President George H. W. Bush asked the Court to overturn the decision, on five separate occasions. In 1980 the Republican party's platform had called for the first time for the appointment of judges "who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life.
~ Unknown
majority described the pressure on the Court and explained why "principles of institutional integrity" required that Roe v. Wade be reaffirmed. A "terrible price would be paid for overruling," the three justices wrote, adding that such a step "would seriously weaken the Court's capacity to exercise the judicial power and to function as the Supreme Court of a Nation dedicated to the rule of law.
~ Unknown
Heath Ledger once said to me, 'It's built you up to knock you down and that's all it is.
~ Unknown
The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method.
~ Unknown
Your anger is like the bubbles in a can of soda. The more you're shaken, the more you want to let it out. The longer you keep it in though, the greater the size of the eventual explosion - and the flatter the drink at the end.
~ Unknown
There's somthing inside me that pulls beneath the surface. Consuming. Confusing. This lack of self-control I fear is never ending. Controlling. I can't seem To find myself again, My walls are closing in (Without a sense of confidence, I'm convinced that there's just too much pressure to take) I felt this way before... So insecure..
~ Unknown
I don't know what stressed me first Or how the pressure was fed But I know just what it feels like To have a voice in the back of my head
~ Unknown
Forfeit the game Before somebody else Takes you out of the frame And puts your name to shame Cover up your face You can't run the race The pace is too fast You just won't last
~ Unknown
Everybody wants me to be what they want me to be but I'm not happy when I try to fake it.
~ Lionel Richie
Why would affluence make him mad?" "Maybe he's mad that this is as good as it gets. Your big house. His good school. I think it's very difficult for kids these days, in a way. The country's very prosperity has become a burden, a dead end. Everything works, doesn't it? At least if you're white and middle class. So it must often seem to young people that they're not needed. In a sense, it's as if there's nothing more to do.
~ Lionel Shriver
expectations are dangerous when they are both high and unformed.
~ Lionel Shriver
T]he cardboard bookcase of her character had already collapsed under the strain.
~ Lionel Shriver
Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious diagnosis of anorexia seemed much coveted not only by the students but by their mothers, who would compete over whose daughter ate less. No wonder the poor girls were a mess.
~ Lionel Shriver
catalogued the downsides of parenthood, "son might turn out killer" would never have turned up on the list. Rather, it might have looked something like this: 1. Hassle. 2. Less time just the two of us. (Try no time just the two of us.) 3. Other people. (PTA meetings. Ballet teachers. The kid's insufferable friends and their insufferable parents.) 4. Turning into a cow. (I was slight, and preferred to stay that way. My sister-in-law had
~ Lionel Shriver
A los profesores se les culpaba de cualquier cosa que funcionara mal con los muchachos y a la vez se recurría a ellos como si fueran los únicos capaces de salvarlos. Ese doble papel de chivo expiatorio y salvador era a todas luces mesiánico, con la única diferencia de que, probablemente, Jesús estaba mejor pagado.
~ Lionel Shriver
Hay algo especialmente terrible en el hecho de que te digan una y otra vez que tienes la vida más maravillosa del mundo y que ni siquiera así esa vida mejore y siga siendo una mierda.
~ Lionel Shriver
De qué me gustaría huir? De la complejidad. De la angustia. De esa sensación que he tenido toda la vida de que en cualquier momento hay algo que olvido, un detalle, una obligación, algo que se supone que tendría que estar haciendo o que ya debería haber hecho. Es una sensación que no me deja en paz, me levanto con ella por la mañana y no se me va en todo el día. Me voy a dormir con esa sensación.
~ Lionel Shriver
There's something especially terrible about being told over and over that you have the most wonderful life on earth and it doesn't get any better and it's still shit.
~ Lionel Shriver
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.
~ Lisa Alther
Outward pressure is always an opportunity to be inwardly transformed.
~ Lisa Bevere