Distressing Quotes

78 quotes by 66 authors

I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man… — Dalai Lama
Mary, give me your Heart: so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate; your Heart so full of love and humility that I may be able to… — Mother Teresa
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive… — William Hazlitt
...Force yourself to use the optimist's explanatory style: 'The situation is temporary. The effect will be limited, not pervasive. And it's due to external causes.'… — Price Pritchett
I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with some regrets and… — Antoine Lavoisier
It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more difficult… — Ian Mckellen
In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue… — Paul von Hindenburg
I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental… — William Whipple
Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate… — George Washington
The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me. — Harold Bloom
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than… — Jane Austen
I'm an atheist.Â I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist.Â I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that… — Emma Thompson
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. — William Gaddis
I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people… — Alan Moore
The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but… — Mark Twain
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the… — Moliere
Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today) do not realize… — Erwin W. Lutzer
The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any… — Paul Gauguin
There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you. — Anatole Broyard
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. — Geoffrey Fisher

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