Distress Quotes

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

The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.

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

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

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

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.

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.

Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

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

With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing.

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

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

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.

I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn't be 'True Blood' if someone wasn't trying to kill her.