Painful Quotes - Page 11

• It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Political, Politics

  Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man”, p.26

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• I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below it encircled, with the society of neighbors, friends & fellow laborers of the earth rather than with spies & sycophants ... I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ambition, Sleep, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Saul Kussiel Padover (1956). “A Jefferson profile as revealed in his letters”

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• I am terribly British. Especially in the eyes of Americans. I drink several gallons of tea a day, I'm often excessively polite and it's only through many years of expensive and painful dental work that I don't have bad teeth.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Eye, Years, Dental Work

  Source: www.thatvideogameblog.com

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• In my world, everything has the potential to be funny. Joyful things, painful things... It's all about how you view it and if you're able to take an objective stance on the situation.

  Jinkx Monsoon

  Views, World, Able

  "Interview with Jinkx Monsoon: Host for the 7th Annual Academy Awards Party at Seattle Cinerama". Interview with Brian Peterson, seattlegayscene.com. February 22, 2012.

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• A man with an excruciatingly painful condition wrote me and told me that his doctor said that the only cure for what he has is death, and he might want to consider suicide. What do you say to him? I doubt the, "Hey let's go get some coffee and talk" thing is going to be at all helpful.

  Henry Rollins

  Suicide, Coffee, Men

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• I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the circumstances may be fresh in the memory of some of my readers, occurred, not very long ago, in the neighboring city of Baltimore, where it occasioned a painful, intense, and widely extended excitement.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Character, Long Ago

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.401, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best.

  Jamie Babbit

  Dark, Thinking, Laughing

  "‘Addicted to Fresno’ Director Jamie Babbit on Hiding Pregnancies and Embracing Diversity". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. October 1, 2015.

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• I knew Deng Xiaoping when he came out of prison. He had, after all, been imprisoned for nearly ten years by Mao. I know what China looked like before he took over, and so in my own mind, I don't think of Deng Xiaoping as an oppressor. I think of somebody who, faced with that crisis, made a very painful and decision with which I cannot agree. But I also think of him as a great reformer.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Thinking, Years, Decision

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will, to bring it down. And, it might be painful.

  Paul Krugman

  Tools, Down And, Might

  "Why Paul Krugman thinks inflation fears are baloney". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. November 3, 2014.

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• Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Moments

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• There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Way

  Tom Watson (1980). “The Rules of Golf Illustrated and Explained”, Random House Trade

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• Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.

  John Piper

  Life Is Too Short, Fighting, Long

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• The hardships of forced marches are often more painful than the dangers of battle

  Stonewall Jackson

  Military, Battle, Hardship

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• It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

  Jayson Blair

  Written

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• It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.

  Tony Parsons

  Sometimes, Break, Messy

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• I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.

  Robert Morgan

  Pain, Writing, Blood

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• Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance

  Robert Blair

  Pain, Remembrance, Joy

  Robert Blair, Robert Anderson (1802). “The Poetical Works of Robert Blair: Containing The Grave, Etc., to which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author, by Robert Anderson, Accompanied by Prints, Designed and Engraved by W. Gardiner”, p.9

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• Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

  John Piper

  Hands, Design, Holiness

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• Adoption is wonderful and beautiful and the greatest blessing I have ever experienced. Adoption is also difficult and painful. Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption.

  Katie Davis

  Beautiful, Blessing, Adoption

  Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful.

  James Caan

  Pain, Shoulders, Not Sure

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• We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.

  Robert Anthony

  Past, Events, Matter

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.104, Morgan James Publishing

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• Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful.

  Steve McQueen

  Glasses, Broken, Racing

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• Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.

  John Newton

  Christian, Trials, Lord

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• A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

  Christopher Morley

  Mind, Library, Proud

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers.

  Lu Xun

  Dream, Things In Life, People

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