Quotes about Pressure

You can't take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.

it may feel as if they just want you to stop being you.

It's a form of bullying, in my opinion, to make sure that your kid gets the best grades, the best jobs and all that sort of stuff. I just want my child to be happy. I want him to do his best and trust God in the rest, but I'm not going to bully him.

I find that if I go on a vacation, it's like that's more stress to me, because I want to get back.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

The degree of political pressure to make MGNREGA jobs available varies massively from state to state - which is why access to MGNREGA jobs is worse in a very poor state like Bihar than in a richer state like Andhra Pradesh.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

The desperate violence of the way he held her, the hurting pressure of his mouth on hers, the exultant surrender of his body to the touch of hers, were not the form of a moment's pleasure— she knew that no physical hunger could bring a man to this—she knew that it was the statement she had never heard from him, the greatest confession of love a man could make .

The people back home, they didn't even know anyone else who had ridden in an airplane before. So they expected everything from him. 'Ah, Barack, you are a big shot now. You should give me something. You should help me.' Always these pressures from family. And he couldn't say no, he was so generous. You