#stressing

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. ↗

— Simone Weil

#because #best #ends #great #lives

In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out. ↗

— Paul von Hindenburg

#battle #certain #certainly #continue #distressing

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#distressing #everything #follows #into #life

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#capital #capital punishment #controversy #distressing #long

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#improving #increase #just #key #looking

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

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

That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#because #big #big problems #brahms #distressing

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#distressing #extremely #me #nation #newest

There definitely was a time when I was pretty obsessed with my weight, but I'm better off not stressing about my body all the time. ↗

— Hilary Duff

#better #better off #body #definitely #i