#distress

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#hard #i #me #play #very

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#beauty #composes #distress #even #greatest

Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn't be 'True Blood' if someone wasn't trying to kill her. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#blood #distress #her #kill #someone

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 Ships of the same force. ↗

— William Whipple

#distressing #done #experience #force #furnishing

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#administration #beliefs #bureaus #congress #distress

I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for those who have no sorrow of their own to talk of extertion! ↗

— Jane Austen

#comical #distress #love #torture #anger

Cam was filled with the rage of a man unable to rescue his lady, even though she was only debatably in danger. ↗

— Eloisa James

#love

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#crime #cultural #deeply #distress #entrenched

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. ↗

— John Adams

#arise #circulation #coin #confederation #confusion

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#caused #distress #gave #grateful #i