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  • Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the news had been that fourth graders were bad at reciting multiplication tables, because you can, in fact, Google that.

    "Google It" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. June 16, 2011.
  • One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.

    Sleep   Night   Poetry  
    E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.1027, Delphi Classics
  • If you film a scene in a wide shot, especially a disturbing, distressing moment, I do feel like that helps you feel as though you're the room with these people, instead of cutting it up and getting close - which you wouldn't be doing if you were actually in a room with these people.

    Cutting   People   Rooms  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • What I saw in Baltimore was distressing and it tells me we need stronger policies in this country.

  • We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.

    Sick   Dying   Firsts  
  • Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

    Sound   Noise   Matter  
    Jesse Zuba, Jane Austen (2009). “Persuasion - Jane Austen”, p.211, Infobase Publishing
  • There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

    "A Poet Is Born". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. February 4, 2010.
  • When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

    Wisdom   Passion   Mean  
  • The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

  • The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing of circumstances and most bitter environment.

    Billy Graham (1977). “The Secret of Happiness”, Pocket
  • There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass media, the academy and organized religion, our good words tend to float away even as they leave our lips, ascending to an altitude where they neither reflect nor connect with the human condition. We long for words like love, truth, and justice to become flesh and dwell among us. But in our violent world, it's risky business to wrap our frail flesh around words like those, and we don't like the odds.

    Odds   Media   Like Love  
  • Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even number that prevents them from truly touching. If you go on counting, you discover that these pairs gradually become rarer, lost in that silent, measured space made only of ciphers. You develop a distressing presentiment that the pairs encountered up until that point were accidental, that solitude is the true destiny. Then, just when you’re about to surrender, you come across another pair of twins, clutching each other tightly.

    Destiny   Numbers   Space  
  • Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.

  • Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

  • The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.

  • To experience conflicts knowingly, though it may be distressing, can be an invaluable asset. The more we face our own conflicts and seek out our own solutions, the more inner freedom and strength we will gain. Only when we are willing to bear the brunt can we approximate the ideal of being the captain of our ship. Spurious tranquillity rooted in inner dullness is anything but enviable. It is bound to make us weak and an easy prey to any kind of influence.

    Faces   Bears   May  
    Karen Horney (2013). “Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS”, p.27, Routledge
  • Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.

    Jesus   Stress   Christ  
  • With the right person in place, a very distressing chapter in the Justice Department's history can be closed and the process of restoring its credibility as a strong and independent department can begin.

  • An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.

    Iowa   Space   Looks  
  • 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.

  • But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

    Piers Anthony (2002). “Crewel Lye”, p.34, Del Rey
  • Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

    William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1029, Delphi Classics
  • The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

    1957 In the Sunday Times, 24 Feb.
  • The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

    Elderly   Way   Cases  
  • Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society.

    George Washington, Edward Frank Humphrey (1932). “George Washington on religious liberty and mutual understanding: selections from Washington's letters”
  • I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with some regrets and perhaps leave some reputation behind me. What more could I ask? The events in which I am involved will probably save me from the troubles of old age. I shall die in full possession of my faculties, and that is another advantage that I should count among those that I have enjoyed. If I have any distressing thoughts, it is of not having done more for my family; to be unable to give either to them or to you any token of my affection and my gratitude is to be poor indeed.

    Life   Gratitude   Regret  
  • Therefore, philosophy does not give sense in mind happiness. It keeps in mind the only truth. However, it is very possible that the truth may be painful, may be distressing, may be destructive of happiness or makes it impossible. Religion, unlike philosophy, is under the category of the useful one. It promises happiness and says what it is necessary to do and what it is necessary to be to deserve or to obtain it. Consequently, illusion is more important than truth if it gets happiness.

  • There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.

    Laughter   Heart   Men  
    The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906
  • At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

    Life   Stress   House  
    Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”
  • A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.

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