No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress. — Henry Fielding 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
“Some people will still find a way to create a fire with wet logs.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success? — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Through the years, I have helped thousands of children who were ill or in distress. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress. — Alan Hirsch 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
Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range… — Diane Abbott Copy Share Image
“Their opinions don’t matter because at the end of the day, they don’t want you to be happy and any word they… — Karma Peters Copy Share Image
Mosca said nothing. The word ‘damsel’ rankled with her. She suddenly thought of the clawed girl from the night before, jumping the… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive… — Charles P. Kindleberger Copy Share Image
The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
When I was a child I liked watching shows about bounty hunters and Canadian Mounties. I liked the 'Lone Ranger,' I liked… — Duane Chapman Copy Share Image
It distresses me deeply that ideas are not to be circulated freely in the USA if certain persons have their way. One… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Christian mothers, if only you knew the future of distress and peril, of shame ill-restrained, that you prepare for your sons and… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy,… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Cot-death is no longer a problem of clinical medicine, but is one of medical politics. We have long had the knowledge and… — Irwin Stone 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
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 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
“When I penetrate into that house, if I ever do, it will be to go on turning, faster and faster, more and… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies. — Oliver James Copy Share Image
When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow? — William Cowper Copy Share Image
