Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself. — Heath Ledger Copy Share Image
The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose. — Hudson Stuck Copy Share Image
Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music. — Fred Picker 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
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
“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
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
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
...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it. — George Stigler 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
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
We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts.… — Mother Teresa 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
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
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
The big story of 2013, a very distressing year, is that Americans continue not to be able to find the full-time jobs… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
It seems that some consideration should be given to the cause of our mounting physical disabilities, but instead of going to the… — Lester Roloff 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
The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to… — George Washington 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
At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed,… — Aldous Huxley 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
To experience conflicts knowingly, though it may be distressing, can be an invaluable asset. The more we face our own conflicts and… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
What I saw in Baltimore was distressing and it tells me we need stronger policies in this country. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. — Geoffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road. — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you. — Anatole Broyard 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
