#distress

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#bored #distress #misfortune #quickly #recital

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#help #i #live #place #rush

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#comfort #common #common enemy #cordial #deny

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#did #distress #hour #i #known

Let's cause some senators distress. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#distress #senators #some

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#conditions #continuing #deeper #distress #important

What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#child #child abuse #distresses #i #lot

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams. ↗

— Princess Diana

#dreams #emotions #hopes #i #insecurities

The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me. ↗

— Maria Monk

#day #distressing #i #me #received

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#brave #business #conduct #conscience #death