I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone,… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The person... in the grip of an old distress says things that are not pertinent, does things that don't work, fails to… — Harvey Jackins 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
“It was most disturbing to be looked at by so many people all at once, or at any rate by more people… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to… — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils… — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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
Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision. While federal authorities took the proper steps… — Louis Caldera Copy Share Image
As believers, how can we fail to see that abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are a terrible rejection of God's gift of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world,… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“She had come to analysis because she was, as she put it, “ruining her children.” ... “But you are so frustrating,” she… — DeSales Harrison Copy Share Image
We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Thank God, who delivered us from great death, the doom of distress.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Depend upon it; from every condition of distress or evil, there is a great reaction, and the greater the distress or evil,… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
“When you are wronged and your heart and feelings are hardened, do not be distressed, for this has happened providentially; but be… — St. Mark the Ascetic Copy Share Image
