“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
The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me. — Margaret Cho 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 idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me. — Harold Bloom 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes.… — Dalai Lama 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
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
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
What really worries me is that those who are in positions of power are not really affected by what we are writing.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and… — Parker J. Palmer 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
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
To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music. — Fred Picker Copy Share Image
Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose. — Hudson Stuck Copy Share Image
It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself. — Heath Ledger Copy Share Image
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