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  • The night we met-I'm not like that guy." His jaw was rigid. "I know tha-" He placed a finger over my lips, his expression softening. "So I don't want you to feel pressured. Or overpowered. But I do, absolutely, want to kiss you right now. Badly.

  • There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

  • The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.

    Prayer   Worry   Anxiety  
    Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose of Christmas”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
  • In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.

    Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum
  • Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured to be silent.

    Soul   Wish   Culture  
  • Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

  • Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls," he says earnestly to Finnick. "No, it doesn't," says Finnick dismissively. But I crack up, remembering that's how a clueless Effie Trinket presented us to the people of the Capitol last year, before anyone knew us. As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

    Pain   Clueless   Years  
    "Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 2)". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 1, 2009.
  • The fact that traditionally 'female' jobs are paid less, that women end up working part-time because they're societally pressured into caring roles, and that having children has a negative impact on women's wages but a positive impact on men's, are all problems that should deeply concern us, not 'explanations' that can be happily accepted.

    Jobs   Children   Caring  
  • ...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The God image evolves through its relationship to humanity. Whoever knows God has an effect on 'him'. For the individual, knowing God, is the process of recognizing and assimilating the pressured and paradoxical contents of the self, which come to consciousness- seek incarnation- within the ego.

  • And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

    Writing   Serious   Feels  
    Interview with Cheryl Brody, www.seventeen.com. March 05, 2008.
  • You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.

    Boring   Feels   Persons  
    "Moore's better blues". www.cnn.com.
  • For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

    Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 3, 2003.
  • The [Barack] Obama administration has pressured Mexico to keep them away from the Mexican border, so that they don't succeed in reaching the United States. Pretty much the same thing Europeans have done to Turks and Syrians.

    Source: thehumanist.com
  • Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.

  • You shouldn't been pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. But you have to remember that it's not practical or possible for an everyday woman to look like that. Beinz size zero is a career in itself so we shouldn't try and be like them. It's not realistic and it's not healthy.

    Beauty   Fashion   Zero  
  • My parents never pressured me except to advise me against acting.

    Parent   Acting   Advise  
  • I did not have any philosophy at all when I wrote the first novel. I was just wanting to capture experiences that I thought would be inspiring for Indians who are trying to break free from the very high-pressured family environments and do their own thing.

    Source: www.edgemagazine.net
  • I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

    Song   Cutting   Lucky  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.

    Men   Body   Use  
    "Reflections on Sex Equality under Law". "The Yale Law Journal", 1991.
  • I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?

    "The Pressure To Take It Off". Interview with Mim Udovitch, www.nytimes.com. June 25, 2000.
  • The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the ordinary people - of England needed a spokesman in their dealings with the King, someone who would voice their grievances and present their petitions. This was by no means a safe or easy thing to do at that time, and potential spokesman generally had to be pressured into accepting the responsibility.

    John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière
  • We got the Supreme Court, we pressured the Supreme Court into supporting women's rights to choose.

    Rights   Court   Supreme  
    Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com
  • I think 'Elbow' were considered successful even before [2008's] Seldom Seen Kid because we were living off the band. We have a great manager who keeps our coffers topped off, and we give ourselves a sensible wage with a view to having three fallow years between records. We always make sure we have enough money to make a record and not be pressured time-wise.

    Wise   Kids   Successful  
    Source: www.spin.com
  • If you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out. Nothing can come out of you that is not in you. If when you are pressured, anger comes out, it is not the fault of the person who pressured.

  • You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is doing. Not in the least bit!

    Thinking   Want   Radio  
    Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.
  • My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

    Sports   Parent   Lessons  
  • Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured into existence not by Lincoln but by the great emancipators nobody knows, the abolitionists and congressional leaders who created the climate and generated the pressure that goaded, prodded, drove, forced Lincoln into glory by associating him with a policy that he adamantly opposed for at least fifty-four of his fifty-six years of his life.

    Years   Leader   Climate  
  • I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

    Source: aalbc.com
  • European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.

  • There's just so much negative media surrounding professional athletes or sports in general, whether it's kids that are pressured too much or professional athletes making mistakes that influence their family...

    "Before Being An NBA Superstar, LeBron Was Just 'Bron'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 14, 2009.
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