Quotes with distressing

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  • Mahatma Gandhi 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.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bill Bryson An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Bryson And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Rose Macaulay At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Caitlin Moran Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman 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 W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Aldous Huxley 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.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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