Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.
~By Joe Strummer ~
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 ~
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
~By Paracelsus ~
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 ~
The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.
~By George G. Simpson ~
I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.
~By Mary Stewart ~
I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.
~By Harvey Fierstein ~
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
~By Horace Mann ~
God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.
~By Kelly Clarkson ~
Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.
~By David Wilkerson ~
I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.
~By Tom Berenger ~
The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.
~By Harvey Cushing ~
You all know I have terminal cancer-and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist.
~By Tom McCall ~
Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.
~By Jerry Costello ~
England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
~By Cedric Hardwicke ~
It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.
~By Omar Bongo ~
Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
~By Josiah Strong ~
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
~By Paul Gauguin ~
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 ~
That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.
~By John Wilkes ~
Well, I think probably the main reason people overeat is stress.
~By Jenny Craig ~
I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
~By Pat Cash ~
Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.
~By Diane von Furstenberg ~
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
~By Salman Rushdie ~
I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else.
~By Sigourney Weaver ~
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
~By George Etherege ~
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
~By Hans Selye ~
I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.
~By Martin Short ~
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.
~By James Tobin ~
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
~By William Gaddis ~
For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.
~By Leslie Charteris ~
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
~By Morris Raphael Cohen ~
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 ~
Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
~By Jack Wagner ~
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
~By William Wycherley ~
I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may.
~By Jarvis Cocker ~
I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.
~By Kirsten Dunst ~
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
~By Milan Kundera ~
He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?
~By Pierre Salinger ~
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 ~
There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.
~By C. Everett Koop ~
I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.
~By Oskar Werner ~
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 ~
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
~By Freda Adler ~
All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
~By Francis Bacon ~
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 ~
I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.
~By John Hewson ~
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 ~
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 ~
After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.
~By William Lilly ~
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
~By Victor Hugo ~
You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.
~By Peter Shilton ~
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
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 ~
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
~By Geoffrey Fisher ~
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 ~
When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.
~By Pol Pot ~
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.
~By Frank Lampard ~
We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once.
~By Peter Akinola ~
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
~By Philip Stanhope ~
Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.
~By Michelle Obama ~
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
~By Ronald Fisher ~
We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.
~By Genevieve Gorder ~
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
~By Prince Charles ~
I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
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 ~
I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.
~By Tiffani Amber Thiessen ~
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 ~
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 ~
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
~By John Adams ~
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 ~
The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running.
~By Grete Waitz ~
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
~By Marilyn Ferguson ~
I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.
~By Arthur Boyd ~
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 ~
Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.
~By Peter Farrelly ~
I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
~By Carrie Fisher ~
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 ~
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 ~
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
~By Lord Byron ~
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 ~
I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they're denying that they are addicted, say it's stress this, it's this, it's that. But I - it's - I think - I really believe there is a gene. Some people become addicted and others don't.
~By Dick Van Dyke ~
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 ~
They can't take your house and give it to the mayor's mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on.
~By Michael Kinsley ~
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
~By Samuel Daniel ~
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
~By Kate DiCamillo ~
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