Words matter. These are the best Duress Quotes from famous people such as E. L. Doctorow, R. A. Salvatore, Henry Rollins, Hozier, Robert Jay Lifton, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Suffering isn’t a moral endowment. People don’t always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.
That’s the whole point of writing to me – I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I’m using them to try to find my own answers in life.
Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.
I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers.
What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of duress, or I chose to study them because they represented some kind of historical event, as it impacted on them or as they helped to create it.
A protective self-narrative during conflict and duress sometimes obscures us from seeing the worst in ourselves. When the self-sustaining haze lifts after that conflict has subsided, we may recognize in ourselves the flaws the other saw in us at the time that we didn’t have the emotional bandwidth to examine in the moment.
I think I’m drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.
The players are under so much duress, it’s like duressic park out there!
When I was a vocalist, a lead singer in a rock band, I was a law student at the time. It wasn’t a professional rock band, it was for fun. I was already way out of that by the time Phantom came along. Having to learn to sing, it was such duress, having to really try and get to such a quality.
I never wanted anything to do with the theatre as a child. I was dragged there under duress.
I’m known for wearing tweed jackets, khaki pants and suede shoes. I’ve only worn a suit in parliament under duress, when I was on the front bench.
People are capable of incredible gallantry and terrible cruelty in situations of extreme duress. I tried to showcase that range in ‘Enclave.’
I’m a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you’re in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I’ll buy you album.
If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
There’s nothing better than to be rootless cosmopolitans who seamlessly merge into whatever society. That’s the greatest thing human beings can aspire to. Whether forced by duress, Jews became perfect modern human beings. After the Holocaust, one doesn’t really mourn for that – it’s too disturbing, seems like a mistake.
