There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
What children learn from punishment is that might makes right. When they are old and strong enough, they will try to get… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work… — Moliere Copy Share Image
The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“It is distressing to have to act under the impulsive orders of someone who, in a situation which concerns you deeply, does… — J.G. Farrell Copy Share Image
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how… — Bonnie Tyler Copy Share Image
When you engage in compassion, and you hear a distressing sound, like someone calling for help, there is an activation in an… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
I think Pope Francis is a good shepherd and has great experience in following people in joyful, but also distressing situations and… — Christoph Schonborn Copy Share Image
Therefore, philosophy does not give sense in mind happiness. It keeps in mind the only truth. However, it is very possible that… — Marcel Conche Copy Share Image
An army formed of good officers moves like clockwork; but there is no situation upon earth less enviable, nor more distressing, than… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with… — William Whipple Copy Share Image
I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
Ok," he said, "I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Altering our distressing emotions is an uphill battle. When you experience undesirable emotional outburst, try to alter the thought behind.” — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career -… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Ignoring a baby's cry is like using earplugs to stop the distressing noise of a smoke detector. The sound of a smoke… — Jan Hunt Copy Share Image
“She was big on patination. That was how quality wore in, she said, as opposed to out. Distressing, on the other hand,… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention, where they could be held for years without any representation or charges, is… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
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