“ Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed. ”
- Coleman Cox- Copy
- 308
“ He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married… Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful? ”
- Leo F. Buscaglia- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. ”
- Edward Fairfax- Copy
- 2.9K
“ But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest. ”
- John Gay- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction. ”
- Ada Leverson- Copy
- 3.9K
“ A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 2.8K
“ In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service. ”
- Clive James- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century. ”
- Noam Chomsky- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I'd be painting sometimes, and get the strangest feeling I was being watched. I'd look up and see faces pressed against the window or door screens. Then, when I noticed them, the people would want to come in and talk to me. Got very upset, too, when I was too busy… ”
- Norman Rockwell- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Society is pressed to its ancient defense against the violent criminal: the fear of swift and severe punishment. Either we take that road now, or we will live in the sickly twilight of a soulless people too weak to drive predators out of their own house. ”
- Francis T. Murphy- Copy
- 144
“ She flung herself full-length on the stage, drummed with her feet and, taking the corner of a small Persian rug in her teeth, worried it while I sat rigid and appalled on the sofa, pressed back against the chintz cushions. ”
- Alec Guinness- Copy
- 1K
“ People cannot learn by having information pressed into their brains. Knowledge has to be sucked into the brain, not pushed in. First, one must create a state of mind that craves knowledge, interest and wonder. You can only teach by creating an urge to learn. ”
- Victor Weisskopf- Copy
- 1.2K
“ When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature… And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace. ”
- St. Catherine of Genoa- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I do not believe that the deeper problems of living can ever be answered by the process of thought. I believe that life itself teaches us either patience with regard to them, or reveals to us possible solutions when our hearts are pressed close against duties and sorrows and experiences of all kinds. ”
- Hamilton Wright Mabie- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is. ”
- Amy Carmichael- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Give, and it shall be given unto you good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. ”
- The Bible- Copy
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