Pressure Quotes

All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more affordable, all want to grow. Even brands that may have started in a modestly niche design and lifestyle fashion can find themselves under pressure to go global or to sell out at the top.

~ Peter York

I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.

~ Michelle Pfeiffer

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

~ J. G. Ballard

For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.

~ Christopher Nolan

Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol.

~ John Charles Polanyi

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

~ Joe Rogan

I've never dated anywhere else, so I only know L.A. dating, and I wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy. I've pulled back and taken the pressure off of myself to figure it out, because there's so much pressure about status that dating has become this game where you pull out all your tricks.

~ Erin Foster

In England everyone puts a lot of pressure on you when you have cost a lot of money.

~ Andriy Shevchenko

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

~ Hank Johnson

The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.

~ Lenny Abrahamson

I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.

~ Adam Levine

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

~ Edmund Burke

If you're with a close friend, your anger may raise his blood pressure as well as your own, whereas loving feelings may lower blood pressure in both of you.

~ Dean Ornish

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.

~ Dick Cavett

I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of - I could feel the squeeze, the pressure of frustration and anger and fear combining on me... I felt the danger; I felt the squeeze of it.

~ Tim O'brien

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.

~ Richard Simmons

My days in hostel were tough. I was ragged by my seniors. We were asked to wash their dirty clothes, do their odd jobs, etc. When it came to eating, we would be often given burnt rotis and milk that had awful odour. But, never once did I call home. I knew if I had to become a tough cricketer, I would have to handle the pressure.

~ Suresh Raina

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

~ Cathy Freeman

Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.

~ Richard Lamm

The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists.

~ Stewart Udall

It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.

~ David Suzuki

The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure.

~ Jonathan Zittrain

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

~ Peter Ustinov

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

~ Joel Osteen

My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.

~ Bobby Orr