#stress

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#breadth #humanitarian #knowledge #lays #solely

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#appreciate #change #clarity #gradual #here

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#been #central #compassion #conformity #doctrine

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#age #companions #men #middle #middle age

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#hand #maiden #mistress #poor #riches

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

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#commonly #interaction #language #only #side

If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#further #impact #internal #matter #object

I could never have gotten back into my career without the undying support of my husband, who works full time at a stressful job! We decided that we were going to do this as total partners and it is a 50/50 deal with us. ↗

— Lindsay Davenport

#career #could #deal #decided #full

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. ↗

— William Blake

#cause #distress #elsewhere #endure #fortitude