(77 quotes found)
“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
“One may survive distress, but not disgrace.”
Scottish Proverb
“I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.”
Kirsten Dunst
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection”
Thomas Paine
“We are distressed because our churches are half empty; and many of them would be emptier if the Gospel were preached in them”
W. R. Inge
“Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.”
William Blake
“Then every man of every clime,That prays in his distress,Prays to the human form divine,Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.”
“The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.”
Bhagavad Gita
“We also know she's not in any distress whatsoever because she's smiling.”
Bob Ekstrand