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  • In times of distress strengthen your heart.

  • It is heartbreaking to see so many animals in distress through the Gulf Coast region. Many of them are frightened, confused, hungry, dehydrated and lost.

  • he wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details?

    Pockets   Details   Nine  
    J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection”, p.55, Penguin
  • It distresses me deeply that ideas are not to be circulated freely in the USA if certain persons have their way. One of the things that was great about this country was that I could say anything and that everyone else could say anything and we would compare all possible ideas and arrive at opinions.

    Country   Ideas   Usa  
  • Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision. While federal authorities took the proper steps to notify state and local authorities in New York and New Jersey, it's clear that the mission created confusion and disruption. I apologize and take responsibility for any distress that flight caused.

    "White House apologizes for low-flying plane" by Mythili Rao, www.cnn.com. April 28, 2009.
  • If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

    Grief   Moving   People  
  • Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.

    Hate   Gun   Order  
  • I hide my distress, just likethe blessed birds hide themselveswhen they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and yourindifference to my sadness, my loved-one!

    Blessed   Wine   Sadness  
  • Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.

    Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (2006). “Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time”, p.271, Penguin
  • Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

    Smile   Class   Diversity  
  • I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

  • I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.

    May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.47, Open Road Media
  • Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?

  • True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

    Joseph Addison (1795). “Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments; tending to amuse the fancy, and inculcate morality”
  • I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.

  • To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

    'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Divine Image'
  • It is the business of little minds to shrink.

    Carl Sandburg (1948). “Remembrance Rock”
  • But when we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future to see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.

    Love   Perfect   Storm  
    "Aids to Prayer".
  • Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.

    Pain   Play   Meditation  
    Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.83, Workman Publishing
  • When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government

    Thomas Paine (1995). “Collected Writings”, p.649, Library of America
  • I distress you; I draw fast to an end.

    Ends   Draws   Distress  
    Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.143, GENERAL PRESS
  • I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.

    Hate   Hunting   Vices  
    Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”
  • Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth, to save a halfpenny. It is good to believe him.

    Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.75
  • The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

    US Congressional Record, 43rd Congress, 2nd session, June 22, 1874.
  • Cot-death is no longer a problem of clinical medicine, but is one of medical politics. We have long had the knowledge and experience as to how these unnecessary deaths can be avoided. In the meantime.. to prevent your offspring from becoming a SIDS statistic just make sure that its daily intake of ascorbate from conception on is sufficient. Under this regime the neonate is so robust and healthy that there has never been a case of SIDS among these ascorbate corrected infants, not even a case of respiratory distress during birth.

    Medicine   Long   Healthy  
  • Ere thou sleepest, gently lay Every troubled thought away; Put off worry and distress As thou puttest off thy dress; Drop thy burden and thy care In the quiet arms of prayer. Lord thou knowest how I live, All I'VE DONE AMISS FORGIVE; ALL OF GOOD I'VE TRIED TO DO STRENGTHEN, bless and carry through; All I love in safety keep While in Thee I fall asleep.

    Love   Prayer   Fall  
    Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”
  • Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!

    War   Flower   Simple  
  • Every time you see someone in distress, you have the opportunity to work as a team with Heaven's angels. You become the channel for your angels to provide loving care to those in need.

  • Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance, or else involuntarily as a result of some salutary and providential reversal. 'For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged; but when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, so that we should not be condemned with the world.' (1 Cor. 11:31-32).

  • And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.

    Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.130, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
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