Distressing Quotes

78 quotes by 66 authors

An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're… — Bill Bryson
It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what… — Graydon Carter
The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me. — Margaret Cho
Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises. — Mother Teresa
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is… — Dalai Lama
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. — Mahatma Gandhi
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it. — Sigmund Freud
Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of… — Thomas Carlyle
For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are. — Leslie Charteris
The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one… — Thomas Jefferson
...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it. — George Stigler
Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing… — Mother Teresa
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. — Barbara Tuchman
The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral… — Robert M. Hutchins
Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension. — Martin Luther
One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she… — Shirley Chisholm
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since… — Alan Kay
It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in… — John Conyers
The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that… — Alister E. McGrath
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist. — Morris Raphael Cohen

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