One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations… I… — Ray Metzker Copy Share Image
If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you encounter, the experiences that are disappointing or distressing, the addictions and seeming pitfalls… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today)… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you film a scene in a wide shot, especially a disturbing, distressing moment, I do feel like that helps you feel… — Alex Karpovsky Copy Share Image
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself. — Heath Ledger Copy Share Image
“Should we try to account for all the gifts of life there would be no time for distress and uneasiness.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most… — Philip Selway Copy Share Image
I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how good the movie is. What matters is what it takes during the opening weekend. It's slightly distressing sometimes… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. Joy… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Turn it off," Ryodan says without even looking at me. "You're distressing Dani. No one distresses Dani but me. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I've redone plays of mine and made changes. A play is a living thing, and I'd never say I wouldn't rewrite years… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
The number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
“there were occasions on which talking about distressing things merely kept those things alive, whereas not talking about them, consigning them to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Do not grow overconfident following a few victories. Should you not rely upon the Holy Spirit you will soon be thrown once… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
People know that fame and position are pleasant, but they do not know that the pleasure of anonymity is most real. People… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
...Force yourself to use the optimist's explanatory style: 'The situation is temporary. The effect will be limited, not pervasive. And it's due… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
It could well be argued that the continuing rights abuses of the present Iraqi regime, if it is allowed to survive, will… — Frederick Forsyth Copy Share Image
Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
With the right person in place, a very distressing chapter in the Justice Department's history can be closed and the process of… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
