Quotes about Pressure
It's the truth. It just felt like the whole business was fetching and hauling, all the time trying to hold this mess together she was making all the time.
— John Updike
Ninety percent of the time, the game is going to be decided in the final five minutes. When two teams are evenly matched, the better conditioned team will usually execute better when fatigue set sin, and will probably win.
— John Wooden
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
— Peter Marshall
Society's goal is to make us less foolish. From the cradle to grave the pressure is on: "Be normal!" Our inner fool may be shackled and caged by a world made to suppress it, but Jesus came to free the fool.
— Mark Batterson
The beauty of obedience is this: it relieves us of responsibility. It takes all the pressure off of us and places it squarely on God's sovereign shoulders.
— Mark Batterson
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.
— Mark Twain
Valentines Day is a masochistic holiday. If you're in a relationship, then this is the one day you're supposed to say 'I love you', and send gifts to ensure that it means more than the other 364 days of the year; and if you're single, you feel misera
— St. Basil
The isolation of this place tightened like a vise around her throat.
— Mary Connealy
The greater the pressure the brighter the diamond.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.
— Melody Carlson
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
— Michelangelo
The kick in the teeth with fame is, when you don't have it, you beat yourself up for it because you don't have it, but when you have it, you are miserable and kill yourself for it.
— Moby