I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
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To act honestly- even at the risk of saying the unpleasant truth, or of saying no and causing distress to others- if… — Piero Ferrucci 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
I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Some people have become [in U.S] a lot more conservative but I can't really speak about that because I wasn't there. I… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile:… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Happy is already a state, so if you create something that's happy... OK, wonderful... but when you're in a place of distress… — Jlin Copy Share Image
Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress. "Poor Finnick. Is this the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I do not mind having imaginary conversations with animals who are part of my life. The comfort of talking to one at… — Derek Tangye Copy Share Image
Nothing will convince and convict those around us like the peaceful and positive way you and I respond to our twentieth century… — Joni Eareckson Tada 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
As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“A blanket could be used as a distress symbol. You’ll know I’m in danger and in need of rescue, because I’ll be… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one of the most distressing factors of the… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I have a fetish for damsels in distress.” “Don’t be sexist.” “Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
As brother stands by brother in distress, binding up his wounds and soothing his pain, so let us show our love towards… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
“The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We are in for a fiesta of default, repossession, and distress selling of suburban property, much of which will lose its presumed… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing,… — Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart Copy Share Image
Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries… — Zhuangzi 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
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with… — Oliver Goldsmith 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
My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of adult adversities that can provoke severe psychological distress, including debt and unemployment, dysfunctional marital relationships and occupational… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
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