Pressed Quotes

373 quotes by 305 authors

Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage… — Edward McKendree Bounds
I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships… — Alonzo Church
It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like… — Cory Doctorow
I think my new iPhone 5S is broken. I pressed the home button and I'm still at work — Will Ferrell
The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being. — Abraham Maslow
If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic… — Willard Van Orman Quine
When a woman is exhorted to be compliant, cooperative, and quiet, to not make upset or go against the old guard, she is pressed into… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed. — Mark Nepo
As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key! — Angela Kinsey
While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window,… — Jen Hatmaker
A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face. — Katherine Heigl
[T]he sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the government provides Aid… — Mona Charen
When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses possession of his… — Zhuangzi
I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies. — Paul Westerberg
By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and… — John Woolman
To sum up: I am the man who when the concern pressed him and his way was straitened and he could find no other device… — Maimonides
The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like… — Henryk Sienkiewicz
Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary;… — Thomas a Kempis
Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title.… — Walter Isaacson
The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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