Quotes About Distress

I mean, what is the point of being a damsel in distress if your knight goes off and just does his own thing?

Before she spoke again, he cut off her call because he didn't need her misery as well as his own

the long call, the cry which always sounded like an inarticulate howl of pain.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Literal cleanliness and orderliness can release us from abstract cognitive and affective distress - just consider how, during moments where life seems to be spiraling out of control, it can be calming to organize your clothes, clean the living room, get the car washed.

I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

I didn't have the best time at primary school so reading a book was my way of getting away from whatever was upsetting me.

In the Navy, the captain doesn't leave the bridge when the ship is in distress. It's a pretty basic leadership principle.

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself.

I get anxiety and distressed from external stimuli quite easily, so if I'm in a constant state of self-protection, it's exhausting.

We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.

If the Internet went down or there was no telly I would be 'oh no, oh no.'

TV-based politics is to political action as watching ER is to saving someone in distress.

Oh no, Mr. Kaufman. I don't have any more money.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

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

Strike missed the absence of an overriding objective, in pursuit of which he could shelve his sadness; missed the imperative to dismiss pain and distress in the service of something greater, which had sustained him in the military.

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.

The protective powers of such "upward hostility" seem striking: abused employees who fought back harder were less prone to see themselves as victims, more satisfied with their jobs and careers, less distressed, and more committed to their organizations.

For You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. – Isaiah 25:4