#distress

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

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

— Robert Burns

#bliss #brother #brothers #distress #exquisite

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

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

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 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