Quotes about Pressure

He got his driver's license, he got his high school diploma, he got his university degree. He got a worried little furrow between his eyes. He did what he thought was expected of him, and brought the official pieces of paper home to her like a cat bringing dead mice. Now it's as if he's given up because he doesn't know what else to bring; he's run out of ideas.

They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their early, purist stages. It is not enough to give lip service and to believe in equal pay: there has to be a conversion, from the heart. Or so they imply.

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.

It won't take long before I explode with pent-up rage.

Kitty, if only you knew how I sometimes boil under so many gibes and jeers. And I don't know how long I shall be able to stifle my rage. I shall just blow up one day. Still

Really, it's not easy being the badly brought-up center of attention of a family of nitpickers.

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

If you don't live by priorities, you'll live by pressures. Either you determine what's important in life or other people will determine it for you.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

Sure, for all our blindness; secure, for all our helplessness; strong, for all our weakness; gaily in love, for all the pressures on our hearts.

It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.