Pressure Quotes

1817 Pressure quotes by 1488 unique authors

You have to learn to follow your heart. You can’t let other people pressure you into being something that you’re not. If you want God’s… — Joel Osteen
Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills that cure ignorance… — Tom Robbins
I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just… — Yann Martel
Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript,… — Leah Hager Cohen
Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his… — Stuart Hill
Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them… — Margaret Atwood
In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time. — Michael Chabon
The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Anxiety was not an emotion I could ever remember feeling when I went out in New York, and I wondered why tonight felt so different.… — Emily Giffin
As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined… — Daisaku Ikeda
Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him… — Emile Durkheim
The cut in Nick's arm was starting to throb dully with the pressure he was putting on it. He kept looking at Alan. 'How many… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Patience gives your spouse permission to be human. It understands that everyone fails. When a mistake is made, it chooses to give them more time… — Stephen Kendrick
I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body… — Helen Fielding
We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will… — Antonin Sertillanges
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.… — Maya Angelou
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our… — Dale Carnegie
I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't. — Craig Ferguson
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords.… — Eckhart Tolle
I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely… — Peter Cameron
If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out… — Curtis Sittenfeld
The tender pressure of his lips soothed her, like a warm drink in the dead of the winter, when every part of her felt so… — Lauren Kate
We can't always do what we think we have to do. So when there's nothing else you can do, you wait... No matter what... pressure...… — Jeff Lindsay
The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said?… — Milan Kundera

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