I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim. — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease. — Mencius Copy Share Image
Through the years, I have helped thousands of children who were ill or in distress. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Let God enlarge you when you are going through distress. He can do it. You can't do it, and others can't do… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success? — John Dryden Copy Share Image
'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit… — George Grey Copy Share Image
And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s)… — Tom Gross Copy Share Image
Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. In times of severe distress, we tend to get… — Jewel Copy Share Image
When you are in something that you're proud of and it's funny and it's a good night out and all of those… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
It is a widespread and firm belief among guests that their departure is always a matter of distress to their hosts, and… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
When we believe that God hears us, it is but natural that we should be eager to hear Him. Only from Him… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
'The long-suffering man abounds in understanding' (Prov. 14:29), because he endures everything to the end and, while awaiting that end, patiently bears… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
When Berkshire Hathaway laid out three billion dollars for GE today, we didn't spend it, we invested it. When the Federal government… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you. — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
What makes you think I'm giving you a ride?” “Because I'm a damsel in distress,” she said. “And you are a knight… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be? — Laozi Copy Share Image
People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Some of the most beautiful bird calls are cries of distress and fear…these sculptures are a way for me to express my… — Kari Byron Copy Share Image
It seems to me more important actually to share someones distress than to use smooth words about it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Looking backwards Has never been my endeavor Lost passions… bruised emotions Never distressed me.” — Balroop Singh Copy Share Image
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
