“On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties?” KnowsShouldYearsWellsLooksLongHandsPainPoorPossibilityBearsPressureMeetingsFinalsAbsencePlanningCertaintyInterviewsUsualOne WordVoyagesMorrow Book:Master Humphrey's Clock Source: Master Humphrey's Clock
“Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls," he says earnestly to Finnick. "No, it doesn't," says Finnick dismissively. But I crack up, remembering that's how a clueless Effie Trinket presented us to the people of the Capitol last year, before anyone knew us. As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsLooksEnoughPainLastsRememberTurnsPerfectExistencePressureSizeHeyCracksLast YearCoalPearlsPeetaCapitolPeasCluelessPressuredFinnickTrinketsEffie Trinket Author:Suzanne Collins
“The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.” LooksChildrenLittlesHardEarthParentResponsibilityEqualConsciousPressureParentingIncludingBeing A ParentPhysical Health Author:John Lennon
“Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.” PeopleWellsLooksLevelsCitiesConditionsOrdinaryIdealsOvercomingStressPressureAverageEntertainmentContraryAlternativesHolidayConcentrationEcstasyVacationPollutionAbstractionDeliberateAlienationPlungeAggravationOrdinary LifeMonotonyArtificeBustleAbove AverageCongestionPopular Entertainment Author:Jean Baudrillard
“It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And to the millions of such prospective immigrants from poverty to prosperity, there is, rightly or wrongly, no place that looks more attractive than the United States. Given its head, and subject to no restrictions, this pressure will find its termination only when the levels of overpopulation and poverty in the United States are equal to those of the countries from which these people are now so anxious to escape.” PeopleLooksCountryStatesRunningGivenLevelsUnitedPovertyMillionsUnited StatesSubjectsEasierEqualDrawsLaborPressureProsperityImmigrationAttractiveImmigrantsAnxiousPoolRestrictionOverpopulationTerminationCheap Labor Author:George F. Kennan
“They tell me what to wear, how to look, what I should say, how I should be. Until recently I had given into that pressure, I lost sight of who I was. I listened to opinions of people and I tried to change who I am because I thought others would accept me for it. And I realized I don't know how to be anything but myself.” PeopleKnowsInspirationalShouldLooksMotivationalLostGivenAcceptingOpinionKnow HowHealthySightPressureSuicideI RealizedWho I AmWell BeingSuicidal ThoughtsAccept Me Author:Selena Gomez
“There is so much pressure to look a certain way in this town. But it's nice to have a little meat on you, and I hope I inspire women to appreciate their muscular calves.” WayInspirationalLooksLittlesMotivationalCertainNiceInspireHealthyAppreciatePressureTownsSuicideWell BeingMeatSuicidal ThoughtsCalvesInspire Women Author:Jessica Biel
“Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush at Wal-Mart for 20 cents or a fine camel-hair brush from an art store for 20 dollars. The brush doesn't matter - how the finished painting looks is what matters.” LooksArtTwoMatterHelpingArtistGamesPaintingHairFinePressureDollarsGolfFinishedStoresInchesSwingsCentsWhat MattersBrushesCamelsGreat GolfUnder PressureGolf Swing Author:Jerry Pate
“It looks to me as if Darwinians are like someone who, having observed that tugboats sometimes maneuver ocean liners in tight places by directing high-pressure streams of water at them, concludes that he has discovered the method by which the liners cross the Atlantic.” IfsLooksSometimesWaterEvolutionOceanCrossesPressureMethodStreams Author:Peter van Inwagen
“As a young girl, I never felt attractive. I was fat and unhappy at times, and that kind of thinking stays with you your entire life. There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses. But at a certain point, when you achieve a lot of your goals and you can be proud of your work, you start to relax more about who you are. And that includes your appearance and self-image - I don't think I look too bad for a mother of two. But women shouldn't have to feel the pressure to compare themselves to actresses or models.” ThinkingFeelsLooksKindTwoSelfYoungMotherCertainGirlFeltGoalWorryAchieveProudModelsPressureWho You AreAppearanceActressesUnhappyFatsCompareAttractiveRelaxBe ProudBody ImageSlimProud Of You Author:Kate Winslet
“People don't understand the pressure on me to look perfect.” PeopleLifeLooksSuccessPerfectPressure Author:Kim Kardashian
“I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.” PeopleIfsLooksLongBeautifulBloodHealthyPressureFolksBlessCurvesBumpsGod BlessTreadmillsBlood PressureRidges Author:Yvette Nicole Brown
“My life is nothing but pressure. All pressure. This pressure is like a heaviness. It's always on top of me, this heaviness. It's always there since I'm a kid. Other people wake up in the morning, 'A new day! Ah, up and at 'em!' I wake up, the heaviness is waiting for me nice. Sometimes I even talk to it. I say [adopts cheerful voice] 'Hi, heaviness!' and the heaviness looks back at me, [in an ominous growl] 'Today you're gonna get it good. You'll be drinking early today.'” PeopleLooksSometimesKidsTodayLife IsWaitingVoiceMorningNiceWake UpPressureDrinkingEmsCheerfulNew DayOminousHeaviness Author:Rodney Dangerfield
“I think the body image thing, everybody can identify with that. In our culture there's just so much pressure and so much attention placed on the way we look. You just turn on the TV or flip open a magazine and there's people who don't look like any of us. I think this movie is like, finally, a celebration of reality and of our imperfections. We're not all a size 2 and we're not all a size 0, and you know what? That's OK, because some of us like to eat!” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayLooksBodyRealityTurnsCultureAttentionTvsPressureSizeMagazinesImperfectionCelebrationBody ImageTurn-onFlip Author:America Ferrera
“It's a huge, huge pressure that so many people depend on you. The type of player I am and people look at me to come out and perform a certain way. Not being able to play on the biggest stage of the season, it's frustrating. One thing I wanted to do was not be frustrated about it and figure out what I can do to change and better myself on the court.” PeopleWayLooksI CanPlayAbleWantedCertainCan DoPlayerOne ThingStageFiguresHugeTypeDependsSeasonsPressureCourtFrustratedLook At MeFrustrating Author:Jermaine O'Neal
“What we're trying to look for is a process that is not responding to political pressures, but one that is responding to economic reality, because I do believe ... that it's in the best interest of the Chinese people to allow a market-based currency.” PeopleTryingBelieveLooksRealityPoliticalProcessInterestEconomicPressureChineseCurrencyRespondingNot Responding Author:Lindsey Graham
“There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.” WayLooksRealityCertainFrontsPressureCamerasExtremesVersions Author:Geri Halliwell
“I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification…I think that word exists only with women because there are societal pressures for them to behave a certain way and to look a certain way. Someone put it to me once: Women are sex objects and men are success objects. That was really interesting to me.” ThinkingMenWayLooksCertainSexInterestingObjectsPressureMalesBehaveReally InterestingObjectification Author:Joe Manganiello
“Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul. The world presses in upon me with all sorts of pressures, pleas, and pretences. My own corruption is violent, tumultuous, enticing, and entangling. As it conceives sin, it wars within me and against me. Occasions and opportunities for temptation are innumerable. No wonder I do not know how deeply involved I have been with sin. Therefore, on God alone will I rely for my keeping. I will continually look to Him.” KnowsWorldLooksHeartHas BeensWarSoulOpportunityMy OwnSinPoorPowerfulWonderWatchesKnow HowInvolvedAdvantageWeakPressurePressesCorruptionViolentTemptationMy SoulOccasionsSatanRelySubtleCunningPretenceEnticing Author:John Owen
“Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the shoulder of everyone who reads. ... Fear of criticism goes with every person into the bookstall. The subtle, imponderable pressures of the orthodox lay hold. Some will fear to read what is unpopular, what the powers-that-be dislike. ... fear will take the place of freedom in the libraries, book stores, and homes in the land.” KnowsLooksPersonsBookHomeGovernmentNamesLandDemandCriticismPressurePressesLaysLibraryDisappearStoresShouldersAgentsSubtleOrthodoxDislikePublishersFirst AmendmentPublicationFree PressLibrary BooksSpectrePurchasers Author:William O. Douglas
“There's a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.” LooksLastsCompanySuccessfulPressureEntrepreneur Author:Ben Silbermann
“Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.” PeopleLooksEndsWholeStuffSportsRealizingBloodEatingPressureAverageFatsIceDietsThe End Of The DayMilkCheeseCreamIce CreamCheesyBlood PressureFat PeopleHigh Blood PressureAmerican Diet Author:Jack LaLanne
“Look at your life. Look at the ways in which you define who you are and what you’re capable of achieving. Look at your goals. Look at the pressures applied by the people around you and the culture in which you were raised. Look again. And again. Keep looking until you realize, within your own experience, that you’re so much more than who you believe you are. Keep looking until you discover the wondrous heart, the marvelous mind, that is the very basis of your being.” PeopleWayLifeInspirationalMindBelieveLooksHeartPurposeCultureBeliefGoalRealizingAchieveAchievementFindingsCapableExperienceBasesPressureAimWho You ArePersonal GrowthRaisedBuddhistBelieve In YourselfFinding YourselfAgain And AgainFoundersMarvelousDefiningFollow Your HeartListen To Your HeartWondrousListen To YourselfAim HighBorn And RaisedBeautiful MindLifetime Achievement Author:Tsoknyi Rinpoche