Presses Quotes

88 quotes by 82 authors

Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often… — Joseph Addison
Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the… — James Joyce
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that… — Calvin Trillin
It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within… — Conrad Veidt
You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell? — Jenkin Lloyd Jones
The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of… — Francis Bacon
Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not… — Poul Anderson
Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold. . . . Adolescents generally choose friend whose values, attitudes, tastes,… — Laurence Steinberg
Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and… — Horace
Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them?… — Joanna Baillie
University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true… — Francis Cornford
Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately,… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts. — St. Jerome
Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion. — Dudley Nichols
A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the… — James Wolcott
A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like an… — Young-Ha Kim
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a… — Hunter S. Thompson
Woman's world is her husband, her family, her children and her home. We do not find it right when she presses into the world of… — Adolf Hitler
Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it,… — Laurence Sterne

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