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#distress

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #distress




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

Cam was filled with the rage of a man unable to rescue his lady, even though she was only debatably in danger.


Eloisa James


#love

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.


Brigitte Bardot


#caused #distress #gave #grateful #i

I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.


Richard Cobden


#am #any #been #country #degree

It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.


Mac Thornberry


#any #anyone #begins #beliefs #calculations

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

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.


Adolf Hitler


#cast #distress #emotions #goddess #great

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.


Denis Kearney


#crisis #distress #feed #forty #grasped

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.


Edward Lear


#died #distressed #door #eaten #fiddle






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