#distress

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

— Charles de Montesquieu

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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

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

— Maria Monk

#day #distressing #i #me #received

It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress. ↗

— Ma Jian

#barred #being #both #caused #china

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes. ↗

— William Trevor

#author #autobiography #based #case #distress

Single ladies, we are not Damsels in Distress…we are Divas that Impress! ↗

— Mandy Hale

#damsels-in-distress #divas #divas-that-impress #positive-thinking #single

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

It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws. ↗

— John Conyers

#age #based #being #civil #civil rights

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. ↗

— William Cowper

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