Famous Quotes
84 Quotations with Distress.
- 1. Dame Rose Macaulay: At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
- 2. Thomas Paine: The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap ...
- 3. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing its ...
- 4. Kahlil Gibran: You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in th ...
- 5. G. K. Chesterton: People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surge ...
- 6. Horace Mann: To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: OVEREAT, v. To dine.
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- 8. Ambrose Bierce: TROGLODYTE, n. Specifically, a cave-dweller of the paleolithic period, after the ...
- 9. E. J. Smith: When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years ...
- 10. Edward Lear: I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the vio ...
- 11. Sigmund Freud: What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the chi ...
- 12. Confucius: The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distr ...
- 13. Thomas Paine: The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave ...
- 14. Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but a ...
- 15. Winston Churchill: You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and ...
- 16. Confucius: The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not dist ...
- 17. Montesquieu: I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve
- 18. William Cowper: Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
- 19. Leslie H. Farber: Anxiety is that range of distress which attends willing what cannot be willed.
- 20. Sun Tzu: Appear at points where the enemy must move quickly to defend; move quickly to pl ...