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Quotes About Distress

Something else is hurting you. That's why you need pot or whiskey, or whips or rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can't think.
~ Charles Bukowski
Something else is hurting you – that's why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can't think.
~ Charles Bukowski
Something else is hurting you - that's why you need pot or whiskey, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can't think
~ Charles Bukowski
Most men try to change effects by working with effects. They fail to see that this is simply changing one form of distress for another. To remove discord, we must remove the cause, and this cause can be found only in the world within.
~ Charles F Haanel
One is distressed by the failure of reasonable people to perceive either the depths of evil or the depths of the holy." —ETHICS
~ Charles R. Ringma
I felt so bad I did not need any further comfort for myself.
~ Chinua Achebe
So if the wall's cracked or you've got leaky faucets, or you've got mold issues, or some sort of damage to your home, selling a home that's got that kind of distress to it is the biggest mistake you will make, because immediately people who are fearful will walk away.
~ Scott McGillivray
Indeed, it is true that in these acts of revenge on others men take it upon themselves to begin the process of repealing those general laws of humanity which are there to give a hope of salvation to all who are in distress, instead of leaving those laws in existence, remembering that there may come a time when they, too, will be in danger and will need their protection.
~ Thucydides
My head throbbed and my mouth tasted like incontinent parrots had roosted there overnight. I
~ Kerry Greenwood
That's when the British captain, Eric Moody, made one of the most famous understatements in the history of aviation. "Ladies and gentlemen," he told the passengers, "this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four of the engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.
~ Kim Zetter
We're trained to help damsels in distress." "If you ever call me that again, I'll kick you in the soft parts.
~ Kristan Higgins
When you are in psychological distress and someone really hears you without passing judgement on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good!
~ Carl R. Rogers
From what I have been saying, I trust it is clear that when I can permit realness in myself or sense it or permit it in another, I am very satisfied. When I cannot permit it in myself or fail to permit it in another, I am very distressed.
~ Carl R. Rogers
You don't have to have one mindset or the other to be upset. Who wouldn't be? Things like a poor grade or a rebuff from a friend or loved one -- these are not fun events. No one was smacking their lips with relish. Yet those people with the growth mindset were not labeling themselves and throwing up their hands. Even though they felt distressed, they were ready to take the risks, confront the challenges, and keep working at them.
~ Carol S. Dweck
lack of leadership can have fearsome consequences. A dog's mental health, after all, depends to a large degree on leadership: dogs get enormously distressed when they think no one is in charge. Accordingly, it's not only nonsensical to fail to establish rules and limits with a dog...but cruel.
~ Caroline Knapp
I emerge from my three-week-long ECT treatment to discover that I am not only this Princess Leia creature but also several-sized dolls, various T-shirts and posters, some cleansing items, and a bunch of other merchandise. It turns out I was even a kind of pin-up—a fantasy that geeky teenage boys across the globe jerked off to me with some frequency. How's that for a newborn-how-do-you-do damsel in very little cinematic distress?
~ Carrie Fisher
I have a fetish for damsels in distress." "Don't be sexist." "Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It's an equal opportunity fetish.
~ Cassandra Clare
At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people nurture the belief that they can do things.
~ George Papandreou
The man had a hand down between her legs, and he must have been hurting her there, because the woman started to moan, low in her throat.
~ George R.R. Martin
Of all calamities this is the greatest.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Born in inquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
~ Thorstein Veblen
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress.
~ William Blake
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.
~ Thomas Szasz