Miseries

But the short-term miseries of the American flier are a function of our nation's long-term success. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The way to forget the sense of our miseries is to remember the God of our mercies. ❋ Unknown (1721)

“Lazarus and Dives” shows a man sent to Hell because he enjoyed a very modified Heaven in this life and which suggested that one of the man’s greatest miseries is an ecclesiastical virtue — “Holy Poverty” — represented in the ❋ Unknown (2006)

Stock exchange firms, "he continued," which take a long-term view of their situation — and whose members recall the miseries of 20 to 25 years ago — should be alert to discourage a resurgence of popular speculative activity. ❋ James Grant (2010)

Adding to the miseries are the low pay of teachers, who have to walk miles to serve the students 'hunger for quality education. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When they face starvation, we remind them that their miseries are their own fault. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Lord Clyde in his latest days used to recall the miseries of his march to Margate, and declare that the horrid dress gave him more pain than anything he afterwards endured in a life-time of marching. ❋ Unknown (2003)

M. de Vermondans was not one of those persons who willingly distress themselves about what the poets call the miseries of human life. ❋ Various (N/A)

One of their miseries was the lack of place to keep things; all their odds and ends had to be stowed away under the cots -- where one might find clothing, and books, and manuscripts, and a hammock, and an umbrella, and some shoes, and a box of prunes, and a sack of potatoes, and half a ham. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

Infuriated, he looked up and perceived that the cause of all his miseries was a weak and cowardly foreigner, a despicable 'Turk.' ❋ Winston S. Churchill (1919)

Surely their miseries were a visible sign of the wrath of the Lord. ❋ Unknown (1918)

We have seen that the cause of our miseries is the burden of taxes occasioned by wars, by standing armies, by sinecures, by pensions, etc. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

On the line of march the unfortunate marines wore pigtails and cocked hats; stocks and cross-belts; tight-fitting, short-waisted red coats, and knee - breeches with boots or spatter-dashes -- even the stout Lord Clyde in his latest days used to recall the miseries of his march to ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

Hereupon he is put to the worst and the most discouraging of all miseries, which is, to be beholden and obliged. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

The criminal trembling at the bar of an earthly tribunal, and with remorse and repentance receiving his doom, might, in like manner, be wholly unable to set his emotions to the measures of speech; but when recovered from the shock by pardon, or reprieve, or submission, is there any reason why he should not calmly recall the miseries and the prostration of spirit attendant on that hour, and give them touching and pathetic expression? ❋ John Wilson (1819)

The general and most distressing in the catalogue of our miseries was the almost unceasing torment of hunger. ❋ Benjamin Waterhouse (1800)

So keen at this time was her feeling that one principal cause of their miseries was the unjust distrust which the citizens in general conceived of the views and designs of the court, that she desires Mercy not to try to see her; and, while she describes the scantiness of the accommodation which her attendants had as yet been able to provide for her, so that Madame Royale had a bed in her dressing-room, and the little dauphin was in her own room, she finds advantage in these arrangements, inconvenient as they were, since they prevented any suspicion from arising that she was giving audiences which she desired to keep secret. ❋ Yonge, Charles Duke, 1812-1891 (1876)

Shelley posits a necessary connection between the prosperity of the new aristocracy of "villainous trade" and the "miseries" of the "day labourer": ❋ Unknown (2006)

But of course: who cares about other than rich people and their "miseries"?. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They feel that these people fled, they didn't share in the same kind of miseries and deprivations that they did for the last 10, 12, arguably 20 or 30 years and as a result, they resent the exiles. ❋ Unknown (2003)