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Quotes About Distressed

Looking at photographs of New York in 1952, you find a powerfully pre-Eisenhower era - sagging, tired, distressed - and the palette is slightly dissonant.
~ Todd Haynes
As an investor, you have one powerful way to keep from getting distressed by devilish Mr. Market: Ignore him. Just buy and hold one of the broad-based index funds that
~ Burton G. Malkiel
There's nothing wrong with her except she's completely fucked up.
~ Gary Shteyngart
one of the most powerful tools we use to help regulate a distressed infant is rhythm.
~ Bruce D. Perry
I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
~ Maggie Hassan
Knowing sorrow well, I learn to succor the distressed.
~ Virgil
I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career... I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.
~ Michael Heisley
I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.
~ Elbridge Gerry
Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.
~ Suzanne Collins
How are you managing? And don't say you're fine." It's true. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.
~ Suzanne Collins
The idea that I've wounded the brute's tiny cat feelings just invites further taunting. But Prim's genuinely distressed for him. So instead, I visualize Buttercup's fur lining a pair of gloves, an image that has helped me deal with him over the years.
~ Suzanne Collins
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.
~ Joseph Butler
I am sick with caring.
~ Charles Bukowski
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
~ William Cowper
It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.
~ la bruyere jean de iv
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
I am bubbled, I'm bubbled, O how I am troubled! Bamboozled and bit, my distresses are doubled!" John Gay
~ Gladys Mitchell
The streamers of my consciousness waver out and are perpetually torn and distressed by their disorder.
~ Virginia Woolf
I was unbathed, unshaven, and had had no bowel movement. My nerves were a-jangle.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I see what you think of me,' said he, gravely; 'I shall make but a poor figure in your journal to-morrow.' My journal!' Yes; I know exactly what you will say:- Friday went to the Lower Rooms; wore my sprigged muslin robe with blue trimmings- plain black shoes- appeared to much advantage; but was strangely harassed by a queer, half-witted man, who would make me dance with him, and distressed me by his nonsense.
~ Jane Austen
Describe your state of mine. Insecure. Uncertain. Feverish
~ William Boyd
Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.
~ Mark Zandi
They just … give me the heebie-jeebies, that's all. With their … eyes and paws and … faces.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
It's disturbing to see him like this, behaving as though he might have emotions.
~ Holly Black