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It is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.
— George Stigler
Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.
— Caitlin Moran
Her first marriage, a distressing experience involving an umbrella, had to be annulled.
— Michael Holroyd
Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest.
— Robert Gottlieb
Distressing to be hated because of lies, isn't it." (Mirella)"Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated." (Schramm) — Mary Doria Russell
I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
— T. J. Miller
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[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
— Winifred Holtby
A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.
— Fred Picker
Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.
— Mother Teresa
If finding a woman in your bed is so distressing, magus, you should rethink the direction your life's taken.
— Brandon Nolta
Should we try to account for all the gifts of life there would be no time for distress and uneasiness.
— Bryant McGill
Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most people.
— Philip Selway
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.
— Edward Hirsch
In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.
— Mother Teresa
She had dimples as well as ringlets, most distressing
— Gail Carriger
There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing.
— Ridley Scott
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
— Sigmund Freud
To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
— Ellen Glasgow
Altering our distressing emotions is an uphill battle. When you experience undesirable emotional outburst, try to alter the thought behind.
— Assegid Habtewold
There is a distressing tendency of the L&D profession to latch on to half read and barely understood concepts.
— Robin Hoyle
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.
— Robert M. Hutchins
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
— Geoffrey Fisher
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
How distressing to stumble on a dominant social habitus, just when one was convinced of one's own uniqueness in the matter!
— Muriel Barbery
Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.
— Martin Luther
Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
— Andre Breton
Turn it off," Ryodan says without even looking at me. "You're distressing Dani. No one distresses Dani but me.
— Karen Marie Moning
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
— William Gaddis
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.
— Leslie Charteris
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
— Sigmund Freud
This was distressing. She felt like she'd done so much work to appear as eccentric as possible, and still, when it came down to it, she was sensible.
— Maggie Stiefvater
For Himme, the cumulative effect of the cumulative listening to the cumulative song was cumulatively distressing.
— Etgar Keret
The question is, rather, whether or not America is to enter a new and distressing phase of history where men no longer pursue happiness but buy it.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
— Morris Raphael Cohen
The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.
— Margaret Cho
What I saw in Baltimore was distressing and it tells me we need stronger policies in this country.
— Bernie Sanders
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Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.
— Aimee Bender
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 Tuchman
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Helena was not one of life's shoppers. To her it was not a pleasure but a distressing need, like having one's hair cut, or urinating. It
— Keith McCarthy
