"Everybody has their taste in noises as well……" — Jane Austen

More Distressing Quotes

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• An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of… — Bill Bryson
• It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple… — 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… — 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'… — Thomas Carlyle
• For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's… — Leslie Charteris
• The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by… — Thomas Jefferson
• ...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks… — George Stigler
• Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to… — Mother Teresa

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