Apply Pressure Quotes

#1. One cannot overestimate the options the West has available with which it can apply pressure on Russia.

Andrey Illarionov

#2. Johnson seemed to have a playbook memorized. He mumbled things like, "Pleasure, apply pressure, female gratification." And bent her legs to accomplish some pretty spectacular sexual Twister poses. One in particular had Dove ratcheted up like a street dancer with twenty years' experience.

Debra Anastasia

#3. You don't create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders out there. We need more drill sergeants.

Julie Ann Dawson

#4. Leverage is the ability to apply positive pressure on yourself to follow through on your decisions even when it hurts.

Orrin Woodward

#5. Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.

Anne Hollander

#6. I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going on in your head when you don't even understand it yourself.

Sara Quin

#7. A German firm called Friendsurance relies on people forming their own groups, which apply peer pressure to keep claims and costs lower. The result is refunded premiums for customers and profit for the company.

John Gerzema

#8. All the disappointments of our life before the war were a fool's paradise.

Glenway Wescott

#9. With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

Rob Reiner

#10. I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.

Harrison Ford

#11. The kundalini energy enables us to do things that would not happen otherwise, to apply an occult pressure, to use energy to create effects perhaps thousands of miles away.

Frederick Lenz

#12. The only way to handle pressure is to apply it.

Darrelle Revis

#13. The trick to overwriting a habit is to look for the pressure point - your reaction to a cue. The only place you need to apply willpower is to change your reaction to the cue.

Barbara Oakley

#14. In other cases of unadmitted bias, I had used the time-honored movement tactic of reversing the race or sex or ethnicity or sexuality involved, then seeing if the response would be the same.

Gloria Steinem

#15. I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

Hermann Maier

#16. The truth is so dear to me that if Orholam stood on one side and truth on the other, I would turn my back on my creator himself.

Brent Weeks

#17. The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#18. To do this walk, I believe it's around 2,000 feet, to go from the U.S. to Canada. I would train walking a wire almost 8,000 feet, to overtrain for this.

Nik Wallenda

#19. I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.

Doug Harvey

#20. Princess. By S. Morgenstern. It's a kids' classic. Tell him I'll quiz him on it when I'm back next week and that he doesn't have to like it or anything, but if he doesn't, tell him I'll kill myself. Give him that message exactly please; I wouldn't want to apply any extra pressure or anything.

William Goldman