Distressful Quotes

#1. It isn't a natural thing to keep on worrying about the morality of one's material prosperity. These are proclivities superinduced by modern conditions of the conscience. There is a natural resistance in every healthy human being to such distressful heart-searchings.

H.G.Wells

#2. I can cry at the drop of a hat."
"You find hat-dropping distressful?"
"If it's a nice hat, and it has dropped in the mud, certainly. I could cry about that for days.

Jen Turano

#3. Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.

Melissa Brown

#4. Public institutions are supported by all taxpayers and are available to all.

Robert Reich

#5. I hardly know where I found the hardihood thus to open a conversation with a stranger; the step was contrary to my nature and habits: but I think her occupation touched a chord of sympathy somewhere;

Charlotte Bronte

#6. To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.

Maya Angelou

#7. She shook her head. "No way. I'm not taking off my clothes and letting my lady parts freeze so you can get your rocks off."
His mouth split into a wide grin...

Savannah Stuart

#8. Dark and intense. Powerfully magnetic and hotly sexual. Yes, I knew how he was.

Sylvia Day

#9. If we cannot justify the very concept of the aesthetic, except as ideology, then aesthetic judgement is without philosophical foundation. An 'ideology' is adopted for its social or political utility, rather than its truth. And

Roger Scruton

#10. I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.

Cate Blanchett