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
Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of… — Thomas Carlyle 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
“If we’re busy borrowing distress from yesterday or anxiety from tomorrow, we miss today’s best opportunities, thereby postponing our growth in grace,… — Ruth Myers Copy Share Image
A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“Montesquieu wrote: "I have never known any distress that an hour of reading did not relieve." If one substituted the word music… — Zhu Xiao-Mei 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
“It was most disturbing to be looked at by so many people all at once, or at any rate by more people… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
When Berkshire Hathaway laid out three billion dollars for GE today, we didn't spend it, we invested it. When the Federal government… — Warren Buffett 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 your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress… — Sun Tzu 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
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'The long-suffering man abounds in understanding' (Prov. 14:29), because he endures everything to the end and, while awaiting that end, patiently bears… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
When we believe that God hears us, it is but natural that we should be eager to hear Him. Only from Him… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Especially in entertainment geared toward young people, the women are much stronger than they used to be. There's not really the damsel… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the… — Ihara Saikaku Copy Share Image
And when distress afflicts you in the sea, away go those whom you call on except He; but when He brings you… — Quran 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
I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us… — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
People who are obsessed with Jesus aren't consumed with their personal safety and comfort above all else. Obsessed people care more about… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
When you are in something that you're proud of and it's funny and it's a good night out and all of those… — Bill Nighy 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
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
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
“For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, the soul… — Santa Teresa de Jesús Copy Share Image
But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit… — George Grey 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
The right honorable gentleman [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke] is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave… — John Bright Copy Share Image
We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for… — Harriet Beecher Stowe 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
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
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
![“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 build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.” quote by Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af7/charles-spurgeon-82_despondency_ready-to-halt-poor-fearing-and-thou-mrs_647374.jpg)
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