Distress Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

— Lord Byron

Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.

— Pearl S. Buck

Smooth words in place of gifts. [Lat., Dicta docta pro datis.]

— Plautus

Love fattens on smooth words.

— Katharine Hepburn

“Pretty Words" Poets make pets of pretty, docile words: I love smooth words, like gold-enamelled fish Which circle slowly with a silken swish, And…

— Elinor Wylie

“Where you see yourself is more important than where you actually are!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I think that it's incredibly important that we're actually paying attention to the feminism that's going on on the ground in different countries and…

— Jessica Valenti

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.

— Lorde

The acting stuff is more important to me than actually being a big star.

— Dave Bautista

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

— George Lucas

We are taught these days that being famous is more important than actually doing something.

— Ben Howard

Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for…

— Albert Camus

To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide…

— Ole Hallesby

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

— William Butler Yeats