quotes about Duress

last updated: November 28, 2023

But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldnâ€™t spend Â£1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I canâ€™t agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress.
-- Caitlin Moran

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Hovind said he was entering a not guilty plea 'under duress'.
-- Kent Hovind

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People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.
-- Robert Downey, Jr.

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Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confessions obtained under duress may not be admissible in the court of scientific opinion.
-- Stephen Stigler

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“They say if you get her, you could understand her better and she known to be a cheater, but that's only if you let her.”
“You need to sweat yourself. Don't sweat nobody else.”

Source : Song: A Quarter to Cutthroat
“Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.”
“Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .”

Source : "The Worldly Philosophers". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter VIII, Thorstein Veblen (p. 224), 1953.
“Love the church because Jesus loves it.”
“Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.”

Source : "Ruth Wilson". Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.
“Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, I just don't think it'd understand.”

Source : Billy Ray Cyrus, Todd Gold (2013). “Hillbilly Heart”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.”
“It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.”
“I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”

Source : "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.