#distress

We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once. ↗

— Peter Akinola

#clearly #common #common faith #determined #distressed

Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress. ↗

— Donna Brazile

#distress #governor #help #help people #jesus

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! ↗

— Robert Burns

#bliss #brother #brothers #distress #exquisite

When I was a child I liked watching shows about bounty hunters and Canadian Mounties. I liked the 'Lone Ranger,' I liked shows where the guy saved the girl from the villain. I just liked those kinds of things and I wanted to be a guy like that, you know, that would save the damsel in distress. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#bounty #canadian #child #distress #girl

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#both #distressing #frequency #idols #lastly

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. ↗

— William Gaddis

#distressing #front #his #more #nothing

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