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Quotations by Subject: Stress (11 quotes)

Results from Classic Quotes:

If you had to define stress, it would not be far off if you said it was the process of living. The process of living is the process of having stress imposed on you and reacting to it.: Stanley J. Sarnoff, Man Under Stress, 1963
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All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter to Thomas Jefferson, August 25, 1787
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.: Somerset Maugham

Results from Cole's Quotables:

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
If there were no husbands, who would look after our mistresses?: George Moore
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace.: Edward Lear
When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.: E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.: H.H. Munro (Saki)
It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.: Henri De Regnier

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