Quotes about Pressure

In a fallen world there is a powerful pressure to constrict your life to the shape and size of your life.

The marriage covenant should be strong enough to endure pressure from within and from without

The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; it is about to burst like a new wineskin.

at the voice of the enemy, at the pressure of the wicked. For they release disaster upon me and revile me in their anger.

Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate addressed them again,

Apart from these external trials, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.

Companies often wonder what to outsource and what not to. One possible answer: outsource any job that's not directly exposed to competitive pressure, because outsourcing it will thereby expose it to competitive pressure. (I mean "outsource" in the sense of hiring another company to do it, not the more specific sense of hiring an overseas company.)

She was terrified. She was beginning to realise that after long months of selfcontrol, the pressure, the earthquake, the volcano of her soul was showing signs that it was about to erupt, and the moment that this happened, she would have no way of controlling her feelings.

Reality is the leading cause of stress.

Outward pressure is always an opportunity to be inwardly transformed.

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.