The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard. — William O'Neill Copy Share Image
Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love. — Moses ibn Ezra Copy Share Image
The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
If we do not work on all three levels -- body, feeling, mind -- the symptoms of our distress will keep returning,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
She was a stirrer of the pot, a lover of intrigue and distress, a creature who seemed to draw oxygen from the… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
The more we know Him, the more we will desire to know Him. As love increases with knowledge, the more we know… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
I used to have an eBay addiction. I was really good at selling stuff. My sister needed to get to a funeral… — James Blunt 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
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
The thing that most distresses me is whenever I see things over sexualized, I worry about young girls. Some of the fall… — Lily Tomlin 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
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
“When children are hurt and in pain psychologically, they don't want to be in distress, so when the situation becomes intolerable, they… — Robert W. Firestone Copy Share Image
There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is… — Richard Cobden 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
Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would… — Michelangelo 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
Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. People gather bundles… — Neil Postman 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
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of… — Herbert Spencer 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
The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave… — Solon Copy Share Image
The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
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