“To see a Woman you love in Distress; to be unable to relieve her, and at the same Time to reflect that… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own.… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring… — John Marmysz Copy Share Image
Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Oh, so that's why you're up here. For a pity party." "This isn't a joke. I'm serious." I could tell Lissa was… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“The physical distress was over, but something else still remained, some sort of free-floating disquiet, at first hard to comprehend, but which… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil,… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Agitaion over happenings which we are powerless to modify, either because they have not occured, or else are occuring at an inaccesible… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether… — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
We believe in the Three Rs - reducing the consumption of meat and other animal-based foods; refining the diet by eating products… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
“No one understands another’s grief, no one understands another’s joy. . . . My music is the product of my talent and… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Each person has unspeakable distress. When I remember the past, annoying, I cry; The reality of today is too cruel, too severe,… — Aya Kito Copy Share Image
At equal returns, public investments are generally superior to private investments not only because they are more liquid but also because amidst… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a… — Saadi Copy Share Image
“Everyone suffers, we're all caught in a vicious circle of anguish and distress, passed on from abused generation to abused generation. The… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
“The words 'good' and 'love' have become so trivialized in our culture--not that our definitions were so accurate to begin with--that, in… — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I think what distresses me most in my life is that I have so many ideas I consider exciting ideas that I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
