“Some people will still find a way to create a fire with wet logs.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Distress: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“If you dance daily, you shall expel any seed of distress in thy soul.” — Lailah Gifty Akita 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
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
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
'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
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success? — John Dryden 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
We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity and peace, and free it from confusion and distress — B.K.S. Iyengar 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
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
“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
God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink… — Charlotte Bronte 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
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
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
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 root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“I didn’t have a name for what my condition was until I was thirty-three-years-old. We’re each works-in-progress for as long as we… — Jenifer Lewis Copy Share Image
... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing." "You can't! You're the stable one!" Xavier laughed and I realized his… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
Their bodies will be raised from the dead as vessels for the soul-vessels of wrath. The soul will breathe hell-fire, and smoke… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone,… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
