#stress

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. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#did #him #his #horns #loves

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#days #designed #distress #early #economical

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#future #individuals #induce #much #shattering

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me. ↗

— Skeet Ulrich

#felt #good #i #i can #just

Something must be done about the food.” Seeing his speculative glance Clare laid down her fork and gave him a warning scowl. “Yes, I’m a good cook, but I will not have time to work in the kitchen. And don’t try to convince me that a mistress also has to cook for her lover.” “I wasn’t thinking of wasting your valuable time in the kitchen.” He smiled mischievously. “But a mistress can do interesting thing with food. Shall I describe them?” “No!” “Another time, perhaps. ↗

— Mary Jo Putney

#food-love #mistress #food

Challenge who you can be, don't let fate control your future. Fate can come to rule your life if you don't decide for yourselves exactly what you want. It fills in the bits like a mischievous mistress. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#control #decide #fate #future #life

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure. ↗

— Richard Carlson

#deal #great #great deal #handle #loads

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#armed #churchill #concepts #course #duty

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#dance #grand #happiness #impels #leads

It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws. ↗

— John Conyers

#age #based #being #civil #civil rights