Pain Quotes - Page 24

• Team America must have been the biggest pain in the ass. And if we want to talk well-organized, they got Bill Pope, who is the DP on The Matrix, because he was just like, "I want to do something less serious."

  Neal Brennan

  Team, America, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We can look at the pain in our lives. We can look at the way we have been mistreated, and we can have an attitude of, I will never amount to anything. I have been wrong about people all my life. I am going to pay somebody back for this.

  Gary Chapman

  Attitude, People, Looks

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• In a difficult marriage, both of us have failed each other. Even though one may be the major problem,you also have failed often in the way you have responded to them, the way you have treated them, in the way you have handled your hurt and your pain.

  Gary Chapman

  Hurt, May, Way

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• I hope the reader's sense that I am deeply empathetic with the pain of being in a desperate marriage, but I also believe that the person who is married to the abuser or the alcoholic or whomever has the greatest potential for helping them.

  Gary Chapman

  Believe, Helping, Married

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• Obviously I wasn't playing well at the time. But as a player, you lie to yourself. You say, "There's nothing wrong. I'm just not on time [at the plate]." You make something else up because pain is not an option.

  Prince Fielder

  Lying, Player, Plates

  Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com

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• It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.

  Morgan Parker

  Thinking, Black, Needs

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• While we ended up having several core maintainers use BitKeeper - it was free to use for open source projects - it never got ubiquitous. So it helped kernel development, but there were still pain points.

  Linus Torvalds

  Use, Development, Projects

  Source: www.linux.com

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• The Israelis have taken a lot of security measures which reduce significantly the ability of Iran to inflict truly severe pain in Israel. But America is vulnerable with 100,000 troops in Iraq and more than half of that in Afghanistan, and we depend heavily on access to Middle Eastern oil. We're sitting targets for debilitating Iranian retaliation.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Taken, America, Israel

  Source: www.realclearworld.com

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• There are some  -  called 'death fatigue'  -  people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep perpetuating death and creating more victims and more anger and more pain. They want to heal from that, and I think that's exactly what God wants to do. And, interestingly enough, that's part of what God's original law was doing with the 'eye for an eye' thing. It was actually to limit the patterns of retaliation and then to begin to heal from that.

  Shane Claiborne

  Tired, Eye, Thinking

  Source: medium.com

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• It's unilaterally true that it costs more to maintain the death penalty than the alternatives to it, and we can leverage more resources to victims families. We can do all sorts of creative ways of healing the pain that people have done by channeling the energy and resources to other more redemptive forms of justice.

  Shane Claiborne

  Healing, People, Justice

  Source: medium.com

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• Certainly we're always rooting for our particular contingent moment to be a great one. Pain-free. But the more expansive vision has to include the idea that, even for us, sometimes our particular contingent moment is going to be horrific.

  George Saunders

  Ideas, Vision, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the reason that the contrast between the absolute and the relative is so terrible is because we believe so fully in ourselves as permanent, continuous, and central. I feel insane saying this, but if one weren't so deluded about the permanent reality of the self, a lot of this pain would actually lessen.

  George Saunders

  Believe, Reality, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

  Zadie Smith

  Boys, Dying, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.

  Zadie Smith

  Problem, Novel

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• I used to take that God's-eye view as a comfort when I was a child. I'd think, "Well, we couldn't find the world meaningful at all if it weren't for death." Of course, that is the smuggest and most intolerable of all perspectives because I'm not suffering from the death or the pain.

  Zadie Smith

  Meaningful, Children, Eye

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, "Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order for me to feel this pleasure."

  Zadie Smith

  Thinking, Order, Suffering

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Once I became an adult and started to pursue writing as a professional career, I realized my main characters were always young people. My stories naturally center around children and teenagers. I think it's because I have worked with youth for about twelve years. The pains and joys of adolescents are moments I witness on a daily basis, so their stories are always with me as I write.

  Renee Watson

  Children, Teenager, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Now, we can live in this little, liberal bubble bath where everybody's supposed to like everybody and do all this stuff and understand our pain and know our history. But that, maybe, works in your dorm, that doesn't work in the real world, and people need to get out of all that.

  Van Jones

  Real, People, World

  Source: pen.org

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• Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.

  Elie Wiesel

  Want, Forget, Humans

  "Fresh Air Remembers Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Peace Laureate". "Fresh Air" With David Bianculli, www.npr.org. July 8, 2016.

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• One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community. And by community I mean that community you have a special vision for, that only you see, that no one else in a room sees. That special community in pain, that through a pain you've suffered, you're able to have that vision, that super-ray vision.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Humble, Mean, Community

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. You've already come through some things, which are very painful. If you've been alive until you're 35, you have gone through some pain. It cost you something. And you've come through it. So at least look at that. And have a sense to look at yourself and say, "Well, wait a minute. I'm stronger than I thought I was."

  Maya Angelou

  Waiting, Stronger, Looks

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Not since the early days of the civil rights movement has America been given an opportunity as great as the opportunity we have now. It's one thing for us to avenge our pain, our anger, and our rage by targeting bin Laden and a handful of men who have wrought this villainy. But one should be wise enough to ask, What fueled all this? What continues to sustain the possibility that this will not go away? I think the answer is poverty.

  Harry Belafonte

  Wise, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.

  Plato

  Coins, Virtue, Pleasure

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• I always wanted to be different and do things differently. I was a pain in the neck. I was challenging everything you wanted me to do and challenging people in school.

  Charles Koch

  School, People, Challenges

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Trouble, hardship, difficulty, pain, suffering, conflict, tragedy, evil - they're all part of the [Christian] Story. Indeed, the problem of evil is the reason there's any Story at all.

  Greg Koukl

  Christian, Evil, Suffering

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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