Distress Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.

Let's cause some senators distress.

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

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

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

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

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

Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.

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.

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.