Top 514 Pressed Quotes & Sayings

With 'Pretty Deadly,' I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a three-act structure in it. I don't know - someone probably can.

When I stub my toe it's like I pressed a button that plays all the curse words I know.

Drualt took Freya's warm hand, Her strong hand, Her sword hand, And pressed it to his lips, Pressed it to his heart. Come with me,' he said. Come with me to battle, My love. Tarry at my side. Stay with me When battle is done. Tarry at my side. Laugh with me, And walk with me The long, long way. Tarry with me, My love, at my side.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a living New York team owner the fans like.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

In The Bob Hope Golf Classic (LWT) 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.

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.

I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing.

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

It's like I don't have any one genre, I guess. I think you'd be hard-pressed to get me into a rom-com, but who knows?

I pressed her thigh and death smiled

You'd be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don't have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.

There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan.

Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

The best thing you can do as a leader when people are pressed is get the obstacles out of their way.

I'll take a carb any day of the week, but if I'm being pressed, then I'm sort of into the standard bagel.

I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.

You'd be hard pressed to find more drama in 'Days of Our Lives' than you do in an average job each day.

You'd be hard-pressed to find an actor who isn't a sex symbol somewhere.

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

I'm hard pressed to give an example on the spot of a president who explicitly spoke of the vindication of history, but I'm confident that there are many such examples.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

The seen and seeing softly mutually strike Their glass barrier that arrests the sight. But the world's being hides in the volcanoes And the foul history pressed into its core; And to myself my being is my childhood And passion and entrails and the roots of senses; I'm pressed into the inside of a mask At the back of love, the back of air, the back of light.

On day is pressed on by another.

If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book.

I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.

words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.

Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.

You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.

Girl? He pressed. The name is Riley, she shot back. Learn it. Use it!

For a clean makeup finish, I use Cle de Peau translucent pressed powder.

I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's also relentlessly positive.

I think my new iPhone 5S is broken. I pressed the home button and I'm still at work

Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final soliloquy of Clay, the protagonist in LeRoi Jones’ (aka Amiri Baraka’s) play Dutchman. You’d better be glad Charlie Parker could play him some horn and Bessie Smith could sing, because if they didn’t make music they might murder you. One would be hard pressed to find another group of people on this planet whose music is a surrogate for murder. One would be hard pressed to another group of people on this planet whose life is a proxy for death.

If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.

My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.

As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!

The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.

There's a common misconception that if I uploaded a 20-minute video that I just pressed 'record' and put it online. It's not that at all.

Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.

From an app point of view, if you looked at innovation on the PC, you'd be hard pressed to find companies innovating. The list is small.

The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather.

A freshly pressed suit is a miracle when you're travelling. When your suitcase has turned all your clothes into creased rags, and you've crossed so many time zones that you can't tell a Monday from a Thursday, putting on a freshly pressed suit for breakfast is like spending a week in a spa.

I think in the case of my father, in terms of the things that influenced me, he never pressed me to go into academics or pressed me to go to a field, and indeed, my behavior was largely to move as far the other direction. I don't think that's uncommon with people with very successful parents.

What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.

I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.

Pretend all you want, pretty girl. You and I know that deep down you’re secretly glad to be pressed up to my body.

A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.

You're up to something," I said. He turned, eyes wide, long fingers pressed to his heart. "Moi?" "Yeah, you.

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.

It's hard pressed to find a better American role model than Teddy Roosevelt.

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.

I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.

Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.

Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.