#distress

It is time to move on. House prices won't rise and the economy won't fully engage until more distressed properties are resolved and put back into ordinary use. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#distressed #economy #engage #fully #house

The key to house prices is the share of foreclosure or short sales in the total housing market. When that share rises, house prices will fall, because distressed properties sell for significantly less - currently around 25 percent below non-distressed houses. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#because #below #currently #distressed #fall

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#also #days #distress #fullness #joy

Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us. ↗

— George Grey

#better #bit #countryman #desert #distress

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. ↗

— Confucius

#ability #distressed #fact #his #limitations

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#adult #average #between #child #contrast

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#bible #distresses #failed #give #give me

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

You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of." But that," said Peter, "was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#dishonesty #falsification #family #financial-distress #honor

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#beauty #distress #most #much