A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
In the Armed Services Committee, we endeavored to put forth proposals that would help alleviate some of that stress, both for the troops and for their families.
~By John M. McHugh ~
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.
~By Andrew Denton ~
Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us.
~By George Grey ~
You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.
~By Sharon Stone ~
Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
~By Jose Marti ~
Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.
~By William Maxwell Aitken ~
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
~By Victor Hugo ~
And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.
~By Alphonso Jackson ~
A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.
~By Donna Rice ~
One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.
~By Peter Steele ~
A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.
~By John Gray ~
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.
~By William Trevor ~
Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.
~By Les Paul ~
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.
~By Julian Assange ~
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
~By Freda Adler ~
It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.
~By Omar Bongo ~
I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.
~By Anita Baker ~
I found it a little bit stressful, because I wasn't used to working with Doctor Who. I got the impression I'd walked into the end of seven years and it was all a bit tense.
~By Sarah Sutton ~
I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.
~By Christie Brinkley ~
Everyone knows how much Australia means to me. I try to get back here as much as I can, but normally it's for work, so I'm in and out and jetlagged and stressed.
~By Kylie Minogue ~
Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
~By Josiah Strong ~
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
~By Diane Abbott ~
I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing.
~By Jennifer Connelly ~
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
~By Will Durant ~
They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.
~By Justin Guarini ~
Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically.
~By Deborah Bull ~
I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.
~By Oskar Werner ~
I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.
~By Arthur Boyd ~
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.
~By Richard Cobden ~
Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.
~By John Simon ~
There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.
~By C. Everett Koop ~
England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
~By Cedric Hardwicke ~
More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own.
~By Jay Leno ~
The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
I'm going to try to pull a Natalie Portman. Natalie went to Harvard while shooting 'Star Wars'. I don't know how she did it. I want to have lunch with her and ask her - that seems like a bunch of stress right there.
~By Selena Gomez ~
I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.
~By Christopher Shays ~
It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
~By Elsie De Wolfe ~
There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.
~By Tom Berenger ~
I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.
~By James Ellroy ~
Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.
~By Cofer Black ~
I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
~By Pat Cash ~
Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.
~By Sextus Propertius ~
I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.
~By Rose McGowan ~
Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it the training becomes a lot more rigorous which has to be done carefully otherwise you are in danger of stressing the dog.
~By David Blunkett ~
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
~By Natalie Goldberg ~
If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time.
~By Gregory Bateson ~
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
~By Barbara Tuchman ~
I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.
~By Tiffani Amber Thiessen ~
The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
~By Eliza Farnham ~
Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
~By Billy Sunday ~
I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
~By Gary Kemp ~
I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.
~By Fernando Alonso ~
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
~By Hans Selye ~
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
~By Alvin Toffler ~
It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.
~By Mac Thornberry ~
Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.
~By Marilu Henner ~
For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.
~By Fay Wray ~
I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.
~By Maria Monk ~
Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.
~By Rider Strong ~
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
~By Eartha Kitt ~
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
~By Denis Waitley ~
I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.
~By Matthew Perry ~
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
~By Confucius ~
My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
~By Hans Selye ~
That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.
~By John Wilkes ~
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
~By Robert Burns ~
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
~By John Dryden ~
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
~By Oskar Werner ~
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
~By Philip Stanhope ~
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
~By William Gaddis ~
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
~By William Hazlitt ~
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
~By Pamela Hansford Johnson ~
Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life.
~By Marilu Henner ~
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.
~By Placido Domingo ~
As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.
~By Julian Barnes ~
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
~By Emma Goldman ~
In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.
~By Paul von Hindenburg ~
If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.
~By Elaine MacDonald ~
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
~By Horace ~
You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.
~By Peter Shilton ~
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.
~By Hudson Stuck ~
I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together.
~By Harry Crosby ~
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
~By Robert C. Gallagher ~
The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
~By Thomas Malthus ~
The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
~By Fanny Kemble ~
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
~By Horace Mann ~
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
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