My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.
Trust is like blood pressure. It's silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.
You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I know you shared a moment passionne with Artemis which he subsequently fouled up with his typical boorish behavior. Let me just throw something out there for you to consider while we're chasing the probe: I share Artemis's passion but not his boorishness. No pressure; just think about it. This was enough to elicit a deafening moment of silence even in the middle of a crisis, which Orion seemed to be blissfully unaffected by.
We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that the schools reflect and thus cannot really remedy.
Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.
Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. . . . In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.
Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.
It's like a kettle. If it's a kettle, you turn the kettle off, you know what I mean? I wish I could put a hole in my head and let the steam come out. The steam was getting so high and the pressure was just getting a little bit much for me.
I put a tremendous amount of pressure on myself. I felt like I shouldn't have to audition for anything and all that. And that energy did not serve me at all.
Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.
Being a comedian, you're under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform - to deal with pressure without stress.
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.
Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.
Pressure is something you put on yourself.
I've always seemed to have my best performances when I'm under the most pressure.
Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.
Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.
I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative.