Words matter. These are the best Distressing Quotes from famous people such as Wole Soyinka, Morris Raphael Cohen, Sigmund Freud, James P. Carse, Bonnie Tyler, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together.
Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
What I have experienced, and experienced repeatedly, is the silence of God. For many years, this was a distressing matter for me. I did not consider it an experience, but the absence of an experience.
My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer’s. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can’t remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It’s a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.
Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs – and her violently checkered career – attest.
I’m a stand-up. I’m never worried about getting my next role. That’s never distressing to me.
I’m a stand-up. I’m never worried about getting my next role. That’s never distressing to me.
It’s estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it’s a distressing figure.
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.
The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me.
I’ve been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe it’s thanks to my parents and where I grew up and that sort of thing, but particularly with gay and lesbian citizens, I’ve seen that people can be cruel, and it’s very distressing.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Most fourth graders can’t say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the news had been that fourth graders were bad at reciting multiplication tables, because you can, in fact, Google that.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
The stage gives you more control over your own work; in television, there’s a distressing amount of communal writing. Unless it’s your show, you have no control over that. You’re at the mercy of whoever’s running the show.
The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me.
It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.
When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.
There are some moments that are pretty distressing in ‘Prometheus.’ In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing.
The writer’s shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.
If you film a scene in a wide shot, especially a disturbing, distressing moment, I do feel like that helps you feel as though you’re the room with these people, instead of cutting it up and getting close – which you wouldn’t be doing if you were actually in a room with these people.
It’s distressing to see anyone in the community struggle to access public transport – whether they’re elderly, customers with a disability or families with prams.
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
The big story of 2013, a very distressing year, is that Americans continue not to be able to find the full-time jobs they need, and that’s something which the president has to recognize as the first priority of his administration.
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.
I’ve been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe it’s thanks to my parents and where I grew up and that sort of thing, but particularly with gay and lesbian citizens, I’ve seen that people can be cruel, and it’s very distressing.
That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.
It is to the last degree distressing to contemplate the state and establishment of our navy… unless the private emolument of individuals in our navy is made superior to that in privateers, it never can become respectable; it never will become formidable. And without a respectable navy – alas, America!
I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don’t do only that. You also need to train your mind.
If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.
I’ve redone plays of mine and made changes. A play is a living thing, and I’d never say I wouldn’t rewrite years later. Tennessee Williams did that all the time, and it’s distressing, because I’d like the play to be out there in its finished form.
An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows… We’re reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa – just kind of open space.
There are some moments that are pretty distressing in ‘Prometheus.’ In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing.
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.
I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.
The newest victims of the nation’s foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.
It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.
The sheer number of paintings of unconscious women is distressing.
The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together.
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
It’s distressing to see anyone in the community struggle to access public transport – whether they’re elderly, customers with a disability or families with prams.
