#distress

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me. ↗

— Margaret Cho

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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. ↗

— Samuel Daniel

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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#best way #children #distresses #insist #lives

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. ↗

— Princess Diana

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I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here. ↗

— Kirsten Dunst

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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been. ↗

— Alice Walker

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