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Letter "P" » pressure
«Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.»
«Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.»
«The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.»
«Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.»
«There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.»
«Pressure makes diamonds.»
Author: General George S. Patton
(General)
| Keywords:
diamonds, pressure, pressured, The Diamond, The Diamonds, Too Much Pressure
«Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.»
Author: George F. Will
| Keywords:
circumscribed, circumscribes, derives, moral excellence, pressure, recording, records, seriousness, severe, strenuous| Occasions:
Olympic
«Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.»
«The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Sorrow
| Keywords:
bitterness, crushes, lees, pressure, strain, vat, vats
«Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.»
Author: Robert Frost
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Writing
| Keywords:
faucet, hydrant, In the House, opening, pressure, upstairs, write off, yard
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