Distressing Quotes

Distressing Quote of the day

...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.

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

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

Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.

There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.

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

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

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.

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

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.

Turn it off," Ryodan says without even looking at me. "You're distressing Dani. No one distresses Dani but me.

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.

Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.

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

The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence.

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

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.

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.

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

It doesn't matter how good the movie is. What matters is what it takes during the opening weekend. It's slightly distressing sometimes but that's how it works.

Reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention, where they could be held for years without any representation or charges, is distressing.

I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country.

The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.

In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.

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.

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

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.

Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.

I think it was Rose Macaulay who said, "A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."

The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.

A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.

To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.

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.

The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.

What I saw in Baltimore was distressing and it tells me we need stronger policies in this country.

The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.

I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Altering our distressing emotions is an uphill battle. When you experience undesirable emotional outburst, try to alter the thought behind.

Should we try to account for all the gifts of life there would be no time for distress and uneasiness.