Duress Quote by David Foster Wallace

“Defence lawyers use the term "duress" to describe the use of force, coercion or psychological pressure exerted on a client in the commission of…

— Emily Thorne

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without…

— David Foster Wallace

With war and famine and flood and special effects films, when you do somebody under duress, you have to be really be inventive and…

— Peter Weir

A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking…

— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

You should be forgiving when others make mistakes, but not when the mistakes are in you. You should be patient under duress yourself, but…

— Zicheng Hong

Sometimes customizing is necessary because of an injury or the inability to do, for a short or long period, the kind of exercise you…

— Victoria Moran

Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own…

— Penny Lernoux

Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confessions…

— Stephen Stigler

At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in…

— Anonymous

Once over there [Balkans], I felt extremely patriotic. Here are these people, from 18-year-olds to military veterans, enduring real duress for the cause of…

— Sheryl Crow

“That you could loathe yourself for acting under duress and still crave the very things you'd done.”

— Kit Rocha

Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.

— Henry Rollins

“[John Jarndyce] rubbed his head so constantly that not a single hair upon it ever rested in its right place”

— Charles Dickens

People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable…

— Robert Downey, Jr

But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes…

— Caitlin Moran