Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
Elsa Maxwell

The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.
Herman Kahn

And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.
Imran Khan

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
Imran Khan

The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.
Imran Khan

There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life?. We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.
Natalie Portman

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.
Donald Rumsfeld

They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.
Shimon Peres

I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.
Sachin Tendulkar

I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me.
Emily Watson

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.
Tim Roth

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.
Peyton Manning

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov

Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.
Robert Redford

It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.
Jilly Cooper

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
Beck

When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.
Gavin DeGraw

I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful.
Kenny Dalglish

When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.
Rick Perry

I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service.
Markus Wolf