It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Distress: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel. — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through. — John Mayer Copy Share Image
In this wild world the fondest and the best Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“I have faced many moments of despair, thank God who relieved me from distress.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn't be 'True Blood' if someone wasn't trying to kill her. — Anna Paquin Copy Share Image
If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
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
You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
“When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, ‘Pray.’ Ask God to guide you and he will take… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social. — Peter Kinderman Copy Share Image
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
"The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
“Ivy waved the wet handkerchief, as much as to say, words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress. Then, because Ivy never settled… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There… — Charles Spurgeon 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
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 you have Enough, you have everything you need. There's nothing extra to weigh you down, distract, or distress you. Enough is… — Vicki Robin 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
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
There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in… — David Wolpe Copy Share Image
The family is the world's greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the… — Isaac Todhunter Copy Share Image
Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Anxiety and stress-related mental dysfunction is the plague of modern-day society. Millions of people are tormented by anxious thinking and the consequent… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
It will comfort us when we must wait in distress for the Savior's promised relief that He knows, from experience, how to… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Christ is already in that place of peace, which is all in all. He is on the right hand of God. He… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way… — Confucius Copy Share Image