“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
To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress. — Ellen Glasgow 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
The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things… — Edward Hirsch 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
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and… — Dalai Lama 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
I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it our power to be in heaven with him right now-to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Mary, my dearest Mother, give me your heart so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate, your heart so full of love and humility,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I… — Barack Obama 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
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
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
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
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
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
One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine.… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing. — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a… — Paul von Hindenburg Copy Share Image
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to… — Alan Kay 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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