Quotes of: Distressed Keyword

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.

Scarlett Johansson

It is impossible says our distressed mind; try it, whispers admonishing us, the dream.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.

Malcolm Gladwell

Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.

Aimee Bender

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Barbara Tuchman

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Sigmund Freud

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

Bill Nighy

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

William O'Neill

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Thomas Paine

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

William Gaddis

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

Milan Kundera

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Samuel Daniel

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

The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.

Hudson Stuck

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

Ian Mcewan

Looking backwards Has never been my endeavor Lost passions… bruised emotions Never distressed me.

Balroop Singh

The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

Joanna Southcott

I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.

Dick Cavett

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

William Cowper

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

Lester B. Pearson

Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress.

Gris