Plight Quotes - Page 4

• Opportunities are everywhere. Needed are eyes to see the pitiable plight and ears to hear the silent pleadings of a broken heart.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Heart, Eye, Opportunity

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• The heart of a woman falls back with the night, / And enters some alien cage in its plight, / And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars / While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Stars, Fall, Heart

  Georgia Douglas Johnson, “The Heart Of A Woman”

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• As you run out of options and energy you must become resigned to your plight. Like it or not you must make a new mental map of where you are, not where you wish you were. To survive you must find yourself, then it won't matter where you are.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Running, Finding Yourself, Wish

  "Deep Survival". Book by Laurence Gonzales, 2003.

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• Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth.

  John Lamb Lash

  Empathy, Essentials, Earth

  John Lamb Lash (2006). “Not in His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief”, p.209, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• I’ve known I was mostly gay ever since I can remember. I know it troubles many people for me to refer to myself as a lesbian considering I have a male partner. I think they gather that it trivializes the plight of the LGBTQIA community & although that couldn’t be further from the truth at this point in my life I’m trying to steer as far from labeling as possible. Compartmentalizing myself only leads to condemnation & contradiction. I’m happier being fluid and I’m happier being honest.

  Caitlin Stasey

  Gay, Thinking, People

  "Reign's Caitlin Stasey on Religion, Sexuality, and Reproductive Rights" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. January 12, 2015.

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• I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

  Joy Bryant

  Children, Parent, Complexity

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• GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar international trade union movement has achieved in almost a century.

  Naomi Klein

  Impact, Media, Style

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• People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, "What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on gay rights." No. It's God catching me by my neck. I wish I could keep quiet about the plight of the Palestinians. I can't!

  Desmond Tutu

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  Source: sojo.net

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• The devil, as a master of deceit, does everything he can to keep people from believing in the existence of a hell; but hell is a literal state of existence that will be the plight of all those who reject the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Tim LaHaye

  Jesus, Believe, People

  Tim LaHaye (2010). “Revelation Unveiled”, p.418, Zondervan

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• The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel, a play, or an opera can engage our emotions on behalf of people who are not only strangers to us, but who do not even exist! And a person whose emotions cannot be so aroused is not behaving normally.

  John Derbyshire

  Play, People, Opera

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• I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.

  Terry McMillan

  Thinking, People, Tragedy

  "Author Terry McMillan, Interrupted by Life". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. July 28, 2005.

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• A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Loss, Hands

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• Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to justify its plight. Black men were given poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'stronger' than white men, while all women were relegated to poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'weaker.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Men, White Man

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.505, Open Road Media

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• New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.

  John Dryden

  Coquette, Vow, Break

  John Dryden (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir”, p.28

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• I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.

  Andy Stanley

  Christian, Children, Home

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• There are literally billions of people on the planet who live in an unimaginable poverty that's not in any way different from the plight of the people in Orchid. And you can't have the splendor of Rodeo Drive without the sweatshops of Indonesia; those two things go hand in hand.

  Tom Morello

  Hands, Orchids, Two

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  Wade Davis

  Lonely, Children, Fate

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• The Quest for Prosperity is an important book. Written with verve and clarity, it reflects a deep understanding of global economic issues, and proposes practical solutions that anyone concerned with the plight of the world's poor would be wise to read.

  Robert Fogel

  Wise, Book, Deep Understanding

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• Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York's mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everyone in New York who voted for Bobby Kennedy or Nelson Rockefeller.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  New York, Definitions, Bobby Kennedy

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• I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating to note what turns them on. There are wives who can cascade over a late husband or a burned dinner, and equally pour tears of joy over a new bonnet or a renovated bathroom.... A while ago I took a ship back from Europe. Amid the tumbling confetti ... I found myself misty-eyed watching a young lady waving a tearful farewell to her boyfriend on the dock. I couldn't figure out if I was crying at her plight, or in delight that he wasn't coming along with us.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Husband, Farewell, Europe

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• When a poor disconsolated drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment,--prays without ceasing 'till his imagination is heated,--fasts and mortifies and mopes, till his body is in as bad a plight as his mind; is it a wonder, that the mechanical disturbancesof an empty belly, interpreted by an empty head, should be mistook for [the] workings [of God].

  Laurence Sterne

  Imagination, Mind, Body

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• By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we surrender of innocent love of self is exchanged for the safeties and pleasures of belonging to a larger whole. We are born dependent, but only imagination can bind our passions to other human beings.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Passion, Self, Safety

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Men, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.337, Harvard University Press

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• My hand and pen are not in plight,
  As they have been of yore.

  Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden

  Hands, Pens, Has Beens

  Thomas Vaux, “The Aged Lover Renounceth Love”

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• I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the plight of a single person...Out of my response to an individual develops an awareness of a problem to the community, then to the country, then to the world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Community, Causes

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