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Fine. The next time that my life is destroyed, I'll try to express my distress in a quieter fashion, far away from your tender sensibilities. — Colleen Houck Ren

Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress. — Sun Tzu

At what point does querying diagnostic criteria tip over into mocking the unusual symptoms of people in very real distress? — Jon Ronson

Let Valten go save his own damsel in distress. I'm sure there are other maidens he can fall in love with. — Melanie Dickerson

The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the poor.
The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the needy in distress. — Lailah Gifty Akita

People in distress never think that you feel enough. — Samuel Johnson

I love the man that smiles at trouble: that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. — Thomas Paine

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name. — Oliver Goldsmith

Little things comfort us because little things distress us. — Blaise Pascal

Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It's an equal opportunity fetish. (Sebastian) — Cassandra Clare

when distress comes your ways, pause and ponder — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There is a maiden in distress, sir; we have no time for trivialities such as the lack of experience. — Nicole Sager

I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies. — Oliver James

If I can aid one in distress,
If I can make a burden less,
If I can spread more happiness,
Lord, show me how. — Grenville Kleiser

When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them. — Sigourney Weaver

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'. — Plutarch

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes. — Alice Morse Earle

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. — Brigitte Bardot

Bitterness is a bitter distress. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Love produces peace and harmony whereas hate causes distress and disharmony ... So be a lover and not a hater! — Timothy Pina

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

Don't be your own devil. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you dance daily, you shall expel any seed of distress in thy soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Lord shall be your comfort in times of distress. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He did his work at the University as he did his work on the farm - thoroughly, conscientiously, with neither pleasure nor distress. — John Edward Williams

Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love. — Alexis Carrel

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone. — George Washington

Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God. — John Flavel

such as mating, childbearing, and establishing an occupation, lead to confusion, emptiness, and psychological distress. — Louis Cozolino

Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress. — L.A. Serrot

Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die. — Thomas Southerne

There is grace for survival; I survived two years without a regular salary. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy. — Edward Gibbon

Self-injury is a sign of distress not madness. We should be congratulated on having found a way of surviving. — Corey Anderson

This is none of your concern,' his uncle spat.
'I beg to differ,' Sebastian said quietly. 'A lady in distress is always my concern. — Julia Quinn

Dancing dismiss distress. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Strike noticed that, in spite of Duffield's air of disorientation and distress, he had made a good job of applying his eyeliner. — Robert Galbraith

I might be the only chick in the group, but that didn't make me the damsel in distress. — Jeaniene Frost

I'm done being the damsel in distress. I don't need anyone to save me. — C.J. Roberts

I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much. — James Patterson

This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you. — C.J. Roberts

I spent 8 months in deep distress. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Dogs and children vomit in distress. Women cry.
("Dial 'O' For Operator") — Robert Presslie

Rescuing damsels in distress is right up our alley. We're supposed to rescue at least one a week. — Jennifer Bernard

Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else. — Diane Ackerman

We give thanks to God, who delivers us, from great distress. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances. — Billy Graham

I felt like I'd just discovered my last big glass of milk had actually come from a bull. — Ari Marmell

Dancing heals distress. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Well, don't look at me because I'm not breaking a nail for some damsel in distress — Heather Couch

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

Emotional Distress (n.): A negative emotional reaction - which may include fear, anger, anxiety, and suffering — Whitney Gracia Williams

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own. — Fulton J. Sheen

Writing is soothing, the most comforting pat on the shoulder in times of distress — Debalina Haldar

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress. — Robert F. Kennedy

Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you. — Edwin A. Abbott

We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them. — Samuel Johnson

He wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details? — J.D. Robb

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty. — Vernon Howard

It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies. — Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

The greatest souls have survived deep distress and mental-ill health. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

You are wonderful sacred-soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

One cowboy is never enough. — Vanessa Vale

You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman. — Laura Schlessinger

A deep distress has humanised my soul. — William Wordsworth

The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as. — Arsene Houssaye

Little given to brahman in distress compensated abundantly,
Is got back not in equal quantity, but in a way higher degree.
[210] 12.2 Chanakya — Munindra Misra

The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be? — Laozi

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress. — Ian McEwan

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption. — Samuel Johnson

I couldn't give a rat's tutu about your emotional distress — Judy Sheindlin

I think, in all honesty, the first place that someone in emotional distress should turn is their loved ones, and then to use professionals ... — Peter Kinderman

Distress: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend. — Ambrose Bierce

She was looking at him as if he'd just dropped fully formed from the sky. — Julia Quinn

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

In times of distress strengthen your heart. — Samuel Ibn Naghrillah

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

It's not the world that distresses you but how you relate to it. — Swami Parthasarathy

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress. — Ann Aguirre

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

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man. — Seneca The Younger

Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress. — Alan Hirsch

If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth. — Hafez

A heart? Peppone knows where one is to be met with. There is always someone in the black market in need of dying early. — Michelle Franklin

Brave, stupid girl, Thorne muttered. He sank back down to the floor, his expression torn between relief and increased distress. — Marissa Meyer

The more you move toward what makes you feel good, and move away from those things which bring you distress and pain, the healthier you will be. — Christiane Northrup

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species. — Frederick The Great

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. — Tom O'Connor

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

If a person takes comfort in his or her faith upon divinity in times of distress, then who the hell am I to say, that the person is delusional. — Abhijit Naskar

I distress you; I draw fast to an end. — Charles Dickens

Market discipline can only limit moral hazard to the extent that debt and equity holders believe that, in the event of distress, they will bear costs. — Ben Bernanke

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. — William Blake

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. — Confucius

when distress comes your way, pause and ponder — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow? — William Cowper

In the wilderness, be not afraid. Trust God to deliver you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Fear is a powerful enemy, but not one too strong to overcome. — Kiley Kellermeyer

I'm not the damsel in distress. I'm the villain. It's only a matter of time before he realizes this. — Stacey Trombley