Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you. — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“If you suffer distress because of some external cause, it is not the thing itself that troubles you but your judgement about… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Soothing touch, whether it be applied to a ruffled cat, a crying infant, or a frightened child, has a universally recognized power… — Deane Juhan Copy Share Image
... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If we take shelter of the lotus feet of the spiritual master, we can become free from illusion, fear and distress. If… — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Copy Share Image
When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one;… — Rumi Copy Share Image
A Day never passes without some ardent reformer or group of reformers suggesting some new government intervention, some new statist scheme to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Fixating on the outcome or needing to know all the details of an upcoming event, such as a trip, causes people to… — Judith Orloff 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 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
“All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I have to get back there." I said to Adrian. "Into that door." He arched an eyebrow. "What, like sneaking in? How… — Richelle Mead 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
We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay… — Jan Chozen Bays Copy Share Image
What makes you think I'm giving you a ride?” “Because I'm a damsel in distress,” she said. “And you are a knight… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let God enlarge you when you are going through distress. He can do it. You can't do it, and others can't do… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease. — Mencius Copy Share Image
The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
