Quotes with distressed

  • If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

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  • Jeanette Winterson It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • William Cowper Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Plutarch Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Marcus Aurelius If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Corrie ten Boom If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.
    Corrie ten Boom
    Dutch-American resistance fighter and autobiographical writer (1892 - 1983)
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  • Bayard Rustin Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. [On Eleanor Roosevelt]
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Edmund Burke Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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