Duress Quotes

• Hovind said he was entering a not guilty plea 'under duress'.

  Kent Hovind

  Entering, Guilty, Said

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• [We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Nwo, Free Opinion

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.136, tredition

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• People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Moving, People, Enough

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• If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would happen if I didn't do this?" And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don't do it. And then imagine what would it feel like to have this done. Spend a day or two, if you can, just 15 minutes here, 5 minutes here, 2 minutes here, here and here, imagining it completed in a way that pleases you! And then, the next time you decide that you're going to take action about it, the action is going to be a whole lot easier.

  Esther Hicks

  Two, Temptation, Done

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• I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

  Emily Blunt

  Character, Thinking, Way

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• I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

  Toni Morrison

  Women, Thinking, Creative

  Newsweek Interview, March 30, 1981.

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• Choose your exercise using the same criteria you'd apply to choosing a date - that is, attractive to you and able to hold your interest for an hour.

  Victoria Moran

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

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• I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.

  Matthew Perry

  Song, Writing, Emotional

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• If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Captivity, Want, Negotiation

  U.S. News and World Report, October 7, 1985.

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• I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Nwo

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• 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 this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.

  Arne Duncan

  Opportunity, College, Risk

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• I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact
  I work only under duress.

  Edward Abbey

  Errors, Trial And Error, Trials

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Nwo, Free Opinion, World Government

  Woodrow Wilson (2016). “The New Freedom: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.129, eKitap Projesi

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• I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Nwo

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

  Zicheng Hong

  Mistake, Forgiving, Taoism

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• 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 peace. I don't ever want to play for a regular audience again, only military folks who are starving for music.

  Sheryl Crow

  Military, Real, Patriotic

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• It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Memories, War, Mean

  Address to the Senate, January 22, 1917.

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• I have insanely dorky taste. Basically, if you're a woman, and you're under any kind of emotional duress, and you sing a song, I will listen to it forever. It's odd being a 37-year-old heterosexual male who owns nothing but Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos. But I'll go against that at first and play something boring like James Taylor.

  Matthew Perry

  Song, Emotional, Years

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other.

  Paul Ryan

  Thinking, People, President

  Paul Ryan at Vice-Presidential Debate at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, www.washingtonpost.com. October 11, 2012.

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• 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 duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.

  David Foster Wallace

  Commitment, Loss, Choices

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• I know there's some poetry that sort of sounds like daisies, but most of the good poetry is also [political], you can feel the heartbeat; it's about some situation that concerns human beings under duress. It's suggesting a solution, or just acknowledging that [the situation] exists. Art does that.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Political, Sound

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

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• 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 are far, far too high. I can’t agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress.

  Caitlin Moran

  Pregnancy, Force, Stakes

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• The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Successful, Loss

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• Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confessions obtained under duress may not be admissible in the court of scientific opinion.

  Stephen Stigler

  Science, Data, May

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• Stick to the script like paper clips and coffee stains, Never let a seed of doubt deter you from your lofty aims, The will is much stronger than the flesh, And it only gets stronger when you going through duress, Imagination is the factory that makes legends... Close Your Eyes and dream B.I.G. like Faith Evans.

  Jay Electronica

  Dream, Coffee, Rap

  "Close Your Eyes". Song by Jay Electronica, Lucy Liu and The Bullitts, April 2011.

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