Pressure Quotes - Page 19

• I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Holiday, Humor

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• 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 verbal) incapacitates me.

  Peter Cameron

  Awful, Charming, Obligation

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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• 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 a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Waiting, Situation, Interaction

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• 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 cold.

  Lauren Kate

  Winter, Lips, Cold

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.311, Delacorte Press

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• 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? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is no longer valid? In modern times an idea can be refuted, yes, but not retracted.

  Milan Kundera

  Mean, Past, Ideas

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• The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache.

  Maureen Johnson

  Cheating, Thinking, Done

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• What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies." "We're all going to want cookies if the world comes to an end," Mrs. Nesbitt agreed. "And chips and pretzels. If the world is coming to an end, why should I care about my blood pressure?" "Okay, we'll die fat," Mom said.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Mom, Blood, Cookies

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Vision

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• School used to be an escape. Now it's just another place with too much pressure, too much confrontation, & so not enough joy.

  Ellen Hopkins

  School, Joy, Too Much

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• I headed towards the mountain, which was an almost irresistible beacon to my storm self. It glowed with heat, pressure, and turbulence—everything a little dust devil like me could want.

  Rick Riordan

  Self, Dust, Storm

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• If you’re not in Gryffindor, we’ll disinherit you,” said Ron, “but no pressure.

  J. K. Rowling

  Gryffindor, Said, Ifs

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• Blame it on Peer Pressure.

  John Marsden

  Peer Pressure, Peers, Blame

  John Marsden (1998). “A Killing Frost”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But don't worry; as I've been saying - and this has been very clever of me, I'm sure you'll agree - if you put enough pressure on coal, it'll turn to pearls!

  Suzanne Collins

  Clever, Worry, Coal

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• Its not easy being a man you know. I had to get dressed today… and there are other pressures.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

  Doris Lessing

  Profound, Might, Form

  Doris May Lessing (1966). “Children of Violence”

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• Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier. You're at the bow of a boat on the Rainy River. You're twenty-one years old, you're scared, and there's a hard squeezing pressure in your chest. What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?

  Tim O'Brien

  Dream, Hurt, Writing

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Sweet, Men, Yield

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• As a matter of fact she does not know to this day if those words were spoken, or if he only caught her, wound his arms around her, held her so tightly, with such continual, changing pressures that it seemed more than two arms were needed, that she was surrounded by him, his body strong and light, demanding and renouncing all at once, as if he was telling her she was wrong to give up on him, everything was possible, but then again that she was not wrong, he meant to stam himself on her and go.

  Alice Munro

  Strong, Giving Up, Passion

  "Passion" by Alice Munro, www.newyorker.com. March 22, 2004.

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• When was the last time you used the words 'teach me'? Maybe not since you started first grade? Here's an irony about school: The daily grind of tests, homework, and pressures sometimes blunts rather than stimulates a thirst for knowledge.

  Jerry Spinelli

  School, Tests, Lasts

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• People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear, grief. More often, people don't change. A girl who never missed a day of work does not suddenly decide to stay home in bed, for no good reason.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Girl, Dream, Grief

  Josephine Humphreys (2000). “Dreams of Sleep”, p.32, Penguin

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• I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it).

  Stephen King

  Things I Love, Lines, Bitter

  Stephen King (1999). “Bag of Bones”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine's Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love. It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids in their windows by January second to rub it in.

  Joan Bauer

  New Year, Valentine, Heart

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• There's pressure, but that's true no matter who you are or what you do.

  Rachel Vincent

  Matter, Who You Are

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “Soul Screamers Volume One: My Soul to Lose\My Soul to Take\My Soul to Save”, p.365, Harlequin

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• "If you’d refrain from slamming my face any more into this dirty rock floor, I’ll do whatever you like," was his even reply. "Fancy letting my head go?" "Sure," I said with an unpleasant snicker, not relinquishing an ounce of pressure. "How about I let you floss with my jugular as well? I don’t think so."

  Jeaniene Frost

  Dirty, Cat, Thinking

  "Halfway to the Grave". Book by Jeaniene Frost, October 30, 2007.

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• His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, “for what?

  Steve Martin

  Views, Blood, Age

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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