Quotes about Pressing

The whole purpose of the winepress is to preserve the grapes. Accept Pressing moments. What you accomplish in a moment of pressure will be used forever. Votes: 3

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground. Votes: 3

Pressing the shutter has remained a moment of joyful recognition, comparable to the delight of a child balancing on tiptoe and suddenly, with a small cry of delight, stretching out a hand toward a desired object. Votes: 3

I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something. Votes: 3

What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale. Votes: 3

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever. Votes: 1

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged. Votes: 1

Show Republicans a shiny pro-life or pro-marriage issue and they'd much rather address that controversial topic than keep pressing on the tyranny that Obamacare represents. Votes: 1

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. Votes: 1

God puts certain things in certain people. I'm a restless soul. I'm always searching. I'm always pressing to find what truth is and what life is all about. Votes: 1

Food redistribution is economically sensible, ecologically pressing, and socially responsible; it is high time food corporations woke up to it and governments started funding the organisations that facilitate it. Votes: 1

The idea that the mind can extend even beyond the body is an intriguing one, and is bound to become more pressing as we increasingly develop technologies that augment our natural abilities. Votes: 1

A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America. Votes: 1

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action. Votes: 1

If we're going to talk about economic fairness, or about fairness, one of the most pressing economic issues facing families, seniors, and job creators in Missouri and across America is the strain of skyrocketing gas prices. Votes: 1

Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and yet it must be asked: How did we get stuck with Piers Morgan? Who is he, why is he here, is he returnable? Votes: 1

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything. Votes: 1

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. Votes: 1

Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet, and once a goal is accomplished, others can be set up. Votes: 1

The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions. Votes: 1

For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse. Votes: 1

How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts. Votes: 1

If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future priorities like college and retirement fall off your radar because they are simply less pressing. Scarcity of attention prevents us from seeing what's really important. The psychology of scarcity engrosses us in only our present needs. Votes: 1

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside. Votes: 1

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. Votes: 1

I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left. Votes: 1

All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments. Votes: 1

The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time. Votes: 1

I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. Votes: 1

Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the time, the only difference in the album is the matrix number or a different 'made in' notation on the back cover or label. This is enough to make some people extremely excited. Actually, much more than excited. Votes: 1

When I started, there was something almost romantic about the notion of paparazzi. I mean, it wasn't. They were still chasing you down the road. But that guy had to put film in his camera and work out whether it was worth pressing the button to take the shot, otherwise he's got to stop and change the film. So it was like this age of innocence. Votes: 1

Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain. Votes: 0

Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing. Votes: 0

I need to keep pressing on until I am thoroughly thankful. Votes: 0

You have to press against the pressure that's pressing against you! Votes: 0

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing. Votes: 0

There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute. Votes: 0

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. Votes: 0

And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity. Votes: 0

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time. Votes: 0

If you are always pressing the envelope, you will suffer many paper cuts. Votes: 0

I've struggled in my life. I've had hard times, but I kept pressing on. Votes: 0

He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind. Votes: 0

If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes. Votes: 0

... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing. Votes: 0

In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion. Votes: 0

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs. Votes: 0

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs Votes: 0

That Asian guy is really good at kicking. Shocking. Someone is pressing 'A' really fast somewhere. Votes: 0

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on. Votes: 0

Look at your heart-flower and smile.You will be able to solve your most pressing problems. Votes: 0

As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing! Votes: 0

There is nowhere pressing to get to because there is absolutely nothing wrong with where I am. Votes: 0

If your boss gets drunk and offers to photocopy her posterior, do not helpfully suggest pressing reduce 75%. Votes: 0

I can make your girlfriend scream louder than you ever could just by pressing her follow button. Votes: 0

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out. Votes: 0

A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet. Votes: 0

Arizona faces many challenges ahead. None is more important or more pressing than passing a new state budget. Votes: 0

How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern. Votes: 0

As a Christian, when your trial is getting hotter, you are getting closer to your breakthrough! Keep pressing! Votes: 0

.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens. Votes: 0

The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs. Votes: 0

We can't completely rely on the aberrations of history to explain today's European necessities. Future-related issues are no less pressing. Votes: 0

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us. Votes: 0

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form. Votes: 0

Enduring, or carrying on, is not just a matter of tolerating circumstances and hanging in there, but of pressing forward. Votes: 0

Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder. Votes: 0

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war. Votes: 0

I know what's in my future is greater than what's in my past so I am pressing forward in life. Votes: 0

Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side Votes: 0

Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s) Votes: 0

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power. Votes: 0

Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy. Votes: 0

In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them. Votes: 0

I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it. Votes: 0

As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts. Votes: 0

I feel like someone is pressing me into a mold that does not fit my body, forcing me intothe wrong shape. Votes: 0

[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it. Votes: 0

Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines. Votes: 0

one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul Votes: 0

Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died. Votes: 0

Just because you've come to a dead end, it's not time to give up. Find a different route and keep pressing forward. Votes: 0

The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people. Votes: 0

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. Votes: 0

Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty. Votes: 0

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power..... Votes: 0

The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind. Votes: 0

Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it. Votes: 0

Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator. Votes: 0

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all. Votes: 0

Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms. Votes: 0

Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S. Votes: 0

I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for our kids and grandkids. Votes: 0

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself. Votes: 0

[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy. Votes: 0

The power of inner strength lies in the ability to overcome the adversities of life and pressing onward toward the achievement of the goal. Votes: 0

You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive. Votes: 0

Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy.... Votes: 0

Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection. Votes: 0

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite. Votes: 0

Few needs are more pressing, or more deserving of our attention, than taking care of the men and women of the U.S. armed forces. Votes: 0

Tell me to leave," he said roughly."No," I whispered, pressing a gentle kiss to his jawline."Then I'm staying," and his lips consumed mine. Votes: 0

I've always been a very sexual person. That doesn't mean I'm going around feeling my breasts and pressing myself against men, but I'm a sexual being. Votes: 0

The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers? Votes: 0

The sad truth is that among today's evangelicals it is not loving and esteeming God but self-love and self-esteem that are presented as the pressing need! Votes: 0

Hey," he said softly. He moved closer to the bars, pressing his face between them. "I always said you were jailbait, but this is ridiculous. Votes: 0

The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer. Votes: 0

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience. Votes: 0

The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages. Votes: 0

Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue. Votes: 0

I became a fierce advocate for gentle birth as a solution for the most pressing problems of our times - a solution that begins at the source. Votes: 0

I had never ironed anything in my life. The proper pressing of a shirt was a mystery of the universe akin to black holes and dark matter. Votes: 0

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone. Votes: 0

As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life. Votes: 0

Success comes from repeated efforts day in and day out. You learn from your mistakes, make adjustments and continue pressing forward until you achieve the results you desire. Votes: 0

Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news. Votes: 0

To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause. Votes: 0

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure. Votes: 0

I want to commend the [Federalist] Society for bringing together the best minds from right, left, and center to debate the most pressing legal issues of the day. Votes: 0

It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always inviting immediate action Votes: 0

It is always perilous to suppose that the past is over and done with or that it can ever safely be disconnected from the pressing concerns of the present. Votes: 0

Your world is as big as you make it.I know, for I used to abideIn the narrowest nest in a corner,My wings pressing close to my side. Votes: 0

Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role. Votes: 0

Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter. Votes: 0

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day. Votes: 0

There is a pressing need to integrate the study of international economics with the study of international politics to deepen our comprehension of the forces at work in the world. Votes: 0

The world community simply should not support such extreme measures when there are so many other pressing issues at hand. The optimal response to greenhouse gases is to start modestly. Votes: 0

Kellan's hand found hers, took it into his strong grasp. "There," he said, pressing a kiss to the center of her palm. "I've got you, Mouse." "Yes, you do," she replied. Votes: 0

Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full exercise of the largest constitutional authorities. Votes: 0

The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. - fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself. Votes: 0

Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever. Votes: 0

Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please. Votes: 0

Every Christian has unique opportunities to engage the most pressing social issues of our day by praying, proclaiming the gospel, and participating with God in all that he is doing in the world. Votes: 0

When flash of hope scans through your dreams. When news of goodness skims the surface of your expectations and bravery abates, break not, keep pressing less the dreams of your fingers suffer extinction. Votes: 0

Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The office of deacon was instituted initially to address this pressing need. Votes: 0

The nation-state is becoming less and less competent to perform its international political tasks... These are some of the reasons pressing us to lead vigorously toward the true building of a new world order. Votes: 0

Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to reconcile order which is not oppression with freedom which is not license. Votes: 0

I hear that Brooke Ashley is also pressing charges. I don't know how she can prove anything. How can they prove anything, whether it's true or not, that I'm the one that infected her? Votes: 0

The only way to meet pressing social needs and be fiscally responsible is to cut the runaway Pentagon budget, which now almost equals the military spending of all other countries in the world combined. Votes: 0

The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis. Votes: 0

My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem. Votes: 0

Are the returns on my journey equal to the length of the road behind me? And if not, have I realized the pressing need to surrender to God the road in front of me~? Votes: 0

Are the returns on my journey equal to the length of the road behind me? And if not, have I realized the pressing need to surrender to God the road in front of me? Votes: 0

It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but for the grindstone, and pressing our noses to it. Votes: 0

The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost it's meaning Votes: 0

Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity. Votes: 0

Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved--pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy--the thread through the maze--the soul behind the toil and the crime and longing. Votes: 0